a. Sociology is the study of the social relationships that affect the humans as well as institutions. It involves many fields of study that include crime, religion, family, race, culture and society among others. It is the primary purpose of sociology to provide linkage to all of these different subjects to help in understanding how humans behave (Smith, 2016). b. Sociological enquiry is the careful analysis of the motivational factors as well as the behavior of a certain individual within a particular group of people.
Let’s start with talking about the different ways in which society can be studied. One way that society can be studied is a by a term known as macrosociology. Macrosociology is where things are a viewed on a large scale. With this way of studying, sociologists like to look at the way the society directly affects and individual. Functionalism and the Conflict Theory, two of the three theoretical perspectives we have discussed in previous chapters, are studied this way.
Sociology was derived from the Latin Socius which means friends, and Logos has the meaning of science. The beginning of the definition of sociology was published in a book with the title “Cours De Philosophie Positive" written by Auguste Comte {1798-1857}. In general sociology is better understood as a science that talked about society. According to expert Sociology is one of a number of social sciences (including economics, psychology and human geography) which attempt to explain and understand the behavior of human beings in society. (Haralambos & Holborn, 2008).
Study design is divided into three different categories: exploratory, explanatory and descriptive. Exploratory research is usually ahead depth study of the problem. The results of Exploratory research give possibility to clarify of purpose, hypothesis, objectives, questions, their formulation for future researches. Descriptive studies are used to systematically obtain information about a certain social phenomenon. Explanatory research not only describes the elements of the phenomenon or process being studied, but also allows to identify and explain the relationship between elements and causal relationships (Yin,
In order to explain the theory better, there is a need to define the terms of the theory for better comprehension. What is Sociology? The concept of sociology can be defined as the study of the human society, the organization of social groups, the social interaction of people and the meaning that people give to their social reality. Put differently, sociology is an “intellectual craft” a way of looking at all things social[ C. Mills , 26]. Because of the broad inclusiveness of its subject matter, sociology must consult other knowledge fields such as philosophy, history, political science, anthropology, economics and law.
Shayon Hewitt Durkheim Paper Sociology Theory Lehman College Emile Durkeim made many constributions to sociology. He insisted that sociology must study the causes and fuctions of social facts. After reading “The rules of Sociological Methods” his constributions and idology became translucent. In the first half of this paper I will be attempting to properly define social facts, give examples of social facts and explain what does not cause social facts. In the other half I will be using an article entitled “Age at First Birth, Parity, and Post-Reproductive Mortality among White and Black Women in the US, 1982–2002”, that supports report research by Naomi Spence, a professor at Lehman college and Issac W Eberstein to demonstrate Durkeim’s rules.
In the quest to explain and classify the new social life dynamics, a number of theories and research methods were developed by the scholars to explain the social life. It is through this process that the development of discipline of sociology had started (Van Krieken, et al., 2013). Key theoretical Perspectives in Sociology Sociologist observes and analyses the social phenomenon from different perspectives and at different level. From the generalisations of various elements of the society to the concentrate interpretations and social behaviours, sociologists analyse and study everything and consider details from the micro level of analysis to macro level of analysis of the society. The three key perspectives in sociology include: The symbolic interactionism perspective directs the scholars of sociology to consider the details and symbols of the everyday life activity including the interpretation of the symbols and the interaction of people with one another.
The key idea to science is observation where it encompass tangible evidence and empirical proof. For sociology, it is “ The science of society. The sociologist studies how everyday, individual stories and relationships relate to the larger, collective stories of social groups, social systems, and societies” (Alexander & Thompson, 2008 , p.4). Although sociology is defined as science (-ology) of society (socio-) (Alexander & Thompson, 2008), it does not mean that it is all about experiments and mathemathics but rather, has its own unique features, which differ from other types of sciences. This can be seen where Kavitha mentioned several factors as of why sociology is a science.
Parliamentarism, or a parliamentary government, is defined “as a system of government in which the executive, the government, is chosen by and is responsible to…the legislature.” (Gerring, Thacker and Moreno, 2005, p. 15) With this form of governmental control, many advantages and disadvantages arise, especially when this system is compared to the likes of ‘Presidential systems’ or even that of ‘Semi-presidential systems’. However, my aim within this essay is to, both, highlight to advantages of parliamentarism, and to also give my opinion as to why this system is better when compared and contrasted with the aforementioned systems. According to Hague and Harrop (2007, p. 336), there are three different branches relating to the parliamentary system. Firstly, the legislature and the executive are “originally linked”. Secondly, the parliamentary executives, the cabinet minister and the Prime Minister, share responsibilities.
Where the constitution provides for the separation of powers of executive and legislature, the members who sits in the parliament in the legislative power to vote for a law are the very person who also sits in the executive in their executive power to implement the law they themselves voted: it can be said that the executive is therefore controlling the legislature and vice versa. Ministers are the one who make the policy and draft the bill, so when the bill is going through the Parliamentary stage, the member of the Parliament will try to support the Minister’s proposal because they are in same