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• The study of society can be accomplished in 3 different ways:

  • Sociology: focuses on the ubiquity of social forces in norms like sex, gender, religion, class, race, sexual orientation
  • Anthropology: involves stating the structures and components of cultural practices and traditions
  • Political Science: exposes asymmetrical power distributions among members of social communities and organizations
• Social change means change in the system of social relationships in terms of social processes, interactions, and organizations
• "Labels" are socially constructed
• Values and beliefs as behavior motivators
• human behavior are form of values and beliefs
• social is the driver of interaction
• Sociology, influencing social actors as their lives intersect in society
• sociology, external influences that facilitate or human actions
• seeking the uncover principles of behavior and for cultural universal through artifacts, Anthropology
• Emile Durkheim is a French social thinker and introduced the concept of social fact
• Karl Marx critiques the capitalist system and argues that it is based on exploitation and inequality
• Society as a concept, the ideal type; form, processes, and dynamics of social reality it embodies
• Society as a factility, social facts and social forces are the mechanics of the operation of society as a factual entity
• Structural functionalism and social order, society made possible by cooperation and interdependence. Parts have their function to perform
• Conflict theory and conflict; Karl Marx; (Competition)
• Symbolic interactionalism and meaning-making, interpreting symbols may affect people. Symbols and meanings