essential of sociology

“What is a theory?A theory is a general statement about how facts are re-lated to one another. A theory provides a conceptual framework for interpreting facts. Pp. 22-23.”said JAMES HENSLIN, who wrote Sociology: A down-to-earth-approach.

This verdict was concise but exceed my expectations when it comes to elaborates the notion of the theory, especially in my infancy of English “manufacturing”, which was excel at some proclaim to monopoly the truth, proclaiming that human today have embraced the capability and intrinsic merits of unraveling the mystery as well as comprehend the world around them with intense desire.

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It has a repository of peculiar professors like Comte, Spencer, Marx, Durkheim, some are not widely known but actually make contributions to sociology like Jane Addams . It has also being equipped with setting and albums, capturing the society by all dimension, for it is no exaggeration to say that the reason why I really make an aspiration to get further comprehension on it was its chromatic color and sophisticated decoration that autonomously attracted my attention. On contrast to the version written by Anthony Giddens that was divided into 13 chapters, it was categorized in 5 parts, including sociological perspectives, social groups and social control, social inequality, social institution and social change, through which individuals could overwhelmingly dwell in different perspective of sociology. Additionally, each pattern, all responsively originated from the upheaval of society, was classified into dominating 3 theoretical perspectives in sociology: symbolic interaction, functional analysis and conflict theory that devise a theory of social struggle. Following this, there also comes a series of chronicle that separate the history of sociology into 3 sections.

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What is equally to be retrospect is that the book has quoted to C.Wright Mills frequently, making me be more engrossed in the perspective of sociology, like “It is sociology that cultivate the capability to escape from cramped by sex, race and another factors” indicating that one could located in broad stream of event and individuals’ specific event so as to attribute why through appropriate patterns that could shepherding systematic research. So there comes an appealing distribution between Parsons and C. Wright Mills. While one has innovated the abstract model of society, the other deplored the theoretical abstractions to get back to social reform and move beyond common sense that prevailing among society, consider all realms of human life legitimate avenue to explore, and their finding sometimes challenge cherished idea.