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00:02:27 1 History
00:02:36 1.1 Origins
00:08:59 1.2 Foundations of the academic discipline
00:14:08 1.3 Positivism and antipositivism
00:14:18 1.3.1 Positivism
00:17:45 1.3.2 Anti-positivism
00:23:58 1.4 Other developments
00:27:37 2 Theoretical traditions
00:27:47 2.1 Classical theory
00:29:33 2.1.1 Functionalism
00:31:29 2.1.2 Conflict theory
00:32:53 2.1.3 Symbolic Interactionism
00:34:37 2.1.4 Utilitarianism
00:36:00 2.2 20th-century social theory
00:38:28 2.2.1 Pax Wisconsana
00:39:52 2.2.2 Structuralism
00:41:40 2.2.3 Post-structuralism
00:42:31 3 Central theoretical problems
00:43:25 3.1 Subjectivity and objectivity
00:45:19 3.2 Structure and agency
00:46:29 3.3 Synchrony and diachrony
00:48:11 4 Research methodology
00:51:04 4.1 Sampling
00:52:02 4.2 Methods
00:55:40 4.3 Computational sociology
00:57:22 5 Scope and topics
00:57:32 5.1 Culture
01:00:02 5.1.1 Art, music and literature
01:01:25 5.2 Criminality, deviance, law and punishment
01:02:27 5.2.1 Sociology of law
01:03:31 5.3 Communications and information technologies
01:03:59 5.3.1 Internet and digital media
01:05:21 5.3.2 Media
01:06:07 5.4 Economic sociology
01:07:46 5.4.1 Work, employment, and industry
01:08:30 5.5 Education
01:09:38 5.6 Environment
01:10:47 5.6.1 Human ecology
01:11:30 5.6.2 Social pre-wiring
01:14:08 5.7 Family, gender, and sexuality
01:16:26 5.8 Health, illness, and the body
01:17:47 5.8.1 Death, dying, bereavement
01:18:15 5.9 Knowledge and science
01:20:10 5.10 Leisure
01:20:55 5.11 Peace, war, and conflict
01:22:17 5.12 Political sociology
01:24:13 5.13 Population and demography
01:25:16 5.14 Public sociology
01:26:05 5.15 Race and ethnic relations
01:27:04 5.16 Religion
01:28:38 5.17 Social change and development
01:30:54 5.18 Social networks
01:32:46 5.19 Social psychology
01:34:06 5.20 Stratification, poverty and inequality
01:37:11 5.21 Urban and rural sociology
01:38:29 5.21.1 Community sociology
01:39:41 6 Other academic disciplines
01:45:17 7 Journals
01:45:49 8 See also



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Sociology is the study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction and culture of everyday life. It is a social science that uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about social order, acceptance, and change or social evolution. Sociology is also defined as the general science of society. While some sociologists conduct research that may be applied directly to social policy and welfare, others focus primarily on refining the theoretical understanding of social processes. Subject matter ranges from the micro-sociology level of individual agency and interaction to the macro level of systems and the social structure.The different traditional focuses of sociology include social stratification, social class, social mobility, religion, secularization, law, sexuality, gender, and deviance. As all spheres of human activity are affected by the interplay between social structure and individual agency, sociology has gradually expanded its focus to other subjects, such as health, medical, economy, military and penal institutions, the Internet, education, social capital, and the role of social activity in the development of scientific knowledge.
The range of social scientific methods has also expanded. Social researchers draw upon a variety of qualitative and quantitative techniques. The linguistic and cultural turns of the mid-20th century led to increasingly interpretative, hermeneutic, and philosophic approaches towards the analysis of society. Conversely, the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s have seen the rise of new analytically, mathematically, and computationally rigorous techniques, such as agent-based modelling and social ...