Sociology
Core concepts;
Social concepts are set apart from our everyday; common sense ones is that they are deliberately constructed as tools to help sociologists reflect on the meaning and significance of the social world in which we live. These concepts act as shorthand descriptors for complex social phenomena or for complex ways of understanding human social behavior.
Core sociological knowledge base is a set of fundamental concepts, skills, and topics, available to all sociologists, that enables sociologists think differently about the world
Core skills
All sociologists rely on three inter connected skill sets;
Complex and critical thinking skills
Research skills
Theorizing skills
Core topics
Among the most significant aspects of difference and inequality that sociologists study are
Race and ethnicity
Social class and stratification
Gender
Sexuality and sexual orientation
Popular culture and mass communications
The social construction of reality
A concepts introduced by Berger and Luckmann who argues that human experience the way we understand reality is shaped by the society in which we live, our experience of reality may therefore be challenged and changed.
Reality in everyday usage means everything that exists. The reality that humans experience is strongly shaped by the social world in which we are raised and live.
Berger and luckmann argue that society is very much a product of men and women working together. The social environment is not the immediate result of our biological constitutions. To be recognizable as a human being means that we are, first and foremost social beings. In fact an existence in a state of nature without social influences or contact is impossible. Human existence is always existence in the context of order, direction, and stability. And the order, direction, and stability, which are social constructs, precede the existence of any given human. i.e a new born infanct left to his own devices cannot survive on his own. Unlike the frog wehave inherent internal mechanisims that would allow each if us to produce, out of our