Course Details
Country:
China
Institution:
External - Jinan University
Course Title:
Introduction to Sociology
Course Number:
0101S101
Course Description:
Sociology is the academic discipline concerned with the systematic investigation and
understanding of human action and interaction. This broad definition includes
everything from the actions, attitudes and beliefs of individual persons to the
structures and cultures of entire societies and global regions. Sociologists study all
manner of topics, from race relations to sports to religious rituals to immigration
patterns (and many other things as well), and they do so through large-scale surveys, interviews, participant observation, documentary analysis and other means of
measurement. What unites such a diverse set of interests, methods and units of
analysis is a common perspective. In the simplest terms, sociology is concerned with
the contextual understanding of human behavior, where the context is relational, cultural, institutional, historical, or (most commonly) some combination of
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
SOCI 101
Attachment Files:
0101S101 Introduction to Sociology-2021-O.pdf
