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Society
is in the eye (I) of the beholder
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| The sociological perspective
is firstly a perspective. |
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| It is a "way of looking at things,"
which we might see in a different way in day-to-day or non sociological
life. |
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| The sociological perspective is in
the eye of the sociologist, sociology student, or of whomever is looking
at (beholding) society. |
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| Maggie Thatcher had a very atomistic
perspective, just the opposite of a sociological perspective, when she
said, "There is no such thing as society, just individuals." (That would
be like saying there are no atoms in chemistry, just the solid surface,
or no solar system in astronomy, just stars; we do not see them ). |
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understand society, the observer must know what to look for. |
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| As well as this sociological perspective,
which contrasts with an atomistic perspective, within sociology there are
three very different classical perspectives, conflict perspective, functionalist
perpective and symbolic interactionist perspective. |
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