What is sociology?

ИТОГОВОЕ ПРАКТИЧЕСКОЕ ЗАДАНИЕ

по дисциплине «Иностранный язык в профессиональной деятельности»

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(тема практического задания)

Москва 2020

What is sociology?

Sociology (FR. sociologie, Latin. Societas-society and Greek.- Logos-the science of society) — the science of society, individual social institutions (state, law, morality, etc.), processes and social communities of people.

The discipline of sociology explores the nature, structure, and dynamics of social life, and also its causes and consequences for the world. With this broad mandate, sociology encompasses a diversity of substantive interests, methodological approaches, and theoretical orientations. Sociologists study diverse social phenomena ranging from online conversations, friendship, and families to neighborhoods, governments, and global markets. They study cities and communities, inequality, social mobility and social class, patterns of population change and migration, social identities such as race, class, and gender, ethnic relations and social conflict, social media and digital interaction, and social dimensions of sex, health, business, education, law, politics, religion, and science. Sociologists study the emergence, stabilization, disintegration, and wide-ranging implications of these social institutions, behaviors, and meanings. Methodologies of the field range from ethnography, interviews, and historical research to surveys, computational modeling, and big data analysis.  

Like any other science, sociology has its own subject and specific research methods. It is included in the General system of scientific knowledge and occupies a strictly defined place in it. Sociology is one of the Sciences that study not only society as a whole, but also its individual parts, spheres, and elements.

A set of Sciences that study the same object, especially one as large as society, are United by logical connections, common concepts and methods, and therefore represent a system that can be called an interdisciplinary matrix. The interdisciplinary matrix of sociological knowledge refers to the totality of disciplines related to sociology, their interrelation, their influence on each other, and their integration.