Basics Of Sociology (Fundamentals Of Social Norms)

Sociology is the study of groups and group interactionssocieties and social interactions. A group is any collection of at least two people who interact with some frequency and who share some sense of aligned identity. A group of people who live in a defined geographic area who interact with one another and who share a common culture is what sociologists call a society. Sociologists study all aspects and levels of society.Sociologists working from the micro-level study small groups and individual interactions while those using macro-level analysis look at trends among and between large groups and societies. The term culture refers to the group’s shared practices values and beliefs. Culture encompasses a group’s way of life from routine everyday interactions to the most important parts of group members’ lives. It includes everything produced by a society including all of the social rules.Sociologists often study culture using the sociological imagination which pioneer sociologist C. Wright Mills described as an awareness of the relationship between a person’s behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped the person’s choices and perceptions. It is a way of seeing our own and other people’s behavior in relation to history and social structure. This book is an attempt to make the readers understand the basics of Sociology in easy and friendly language and tone.