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Sociological
Perspectives
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Module
Introduction (Hub)
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Documents
Included in the
Module
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How You See
a Community is Much a Matter of How You Look at it.
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learning about communities, it is useful to know about the science of sociology,
and the reasoning behind its practical applications such as community empowerment. |
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The
most important contribution of the discipline is the “Sociological Perspective,”
the way of defining and looking at society used by social scientists. |
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as a foundation for this topic, it is useful to look at the three founding
fathers of sociology, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim. |
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While
they did not contribute the terms or identify the approaches, their writings
led sociologists to three classical perspectives, conflict, symbolic interaction
and functional. |
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the standard modules on this site, this module does not consist of different
documents for different readers and different purposes. |
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All
are short essays based upon my lecture notes, and aimed at the beginner
in the study of sociology. |
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Serious students
are advised to start with these but go to more standard and complete sources
of the three classical sociologists and the three classical perspectives.
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