SOCIOLOGIST ANGST

There is a vast difference between a “student of sociology” and a “sociology student.”

The student of sociology is one who has committed himself or herself to the discipline of studying and understanding human behavior, particularly in the context of society. As such, a student of sociology recognizes the learning process to be continuous, and sees the manifold applications of the sociological imagination in understanding man. He or she is not quick to judge, but rather, is committed to analyzing and observing things within their respective contexts, striving to apply the scientific principles of sociological research with objectivity, verstehen and value-free examination. He or she seeks to bridge the realm of sociological theory and practical or applied sociology.

The sociology student is simply a student taking up subjects in Sociology, or is seeking a college degree in Sociology. He or she is a pitiable and mediocre creature – seeking only to pass, he or she barely understands sociology as at is. With little appreciation for both sociological theory and application, this person is at a loss of how to apply what he or she has learned in life and work.

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Sociology

Is the scientific study of human social behavior. As the study of humans in their collective aspect, sociology is concerned with all group activities–economic, social, political, and religious. Sociologists study such areas as bureaucracy, community, deviant behavior, family, public opinion, social change, social mobility, social stratification, and such specific problems as crime, divorce, child abuse, and substance addiction. Sociology tries to determine the laws governing human behavior in social contexts; it is sometimes distinguished as a general social science from the special social sciences, such as economics and political science, which confine themselves to a selected group of social facts or relations.

More here:
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=44226
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology (recommended!)

More resources:
http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/w3virtsoclib
http://www.sociologyonline.co.uk/


Sociological dictionaries:
http://www.glossarist.com/glossaries/humanities-social-sciences/sociology.asp
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rmazur/dictionary/a.html
http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/frank.elwell/prob3/glossary/socgloss.htm
http://oldweb.northampton.ac.uk/ass/soc/nws/html/diction2.html
http://www.trinity.edu/%7Emkearl/

Sociology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology

SOME SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS:

Conflict theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_theory

Deconstructionist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstructionists

Feminism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism

Functionalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionalism_%28sociology%29

Gemeinschaft/Gesselschaft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeinschaft_and_Gesellschaft

Positivism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivism#Social_Science

Post-Modernist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernists

Social Research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_research

Social Theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_theory

Sociological Imagination: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociological_imagination

Structural-functionalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_functionalism

Symbolic Interactionist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_interactionism

Verstehen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verstehen


SOME SOCIOLOGICAL THINKERS:

Auguste Comte: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Comte

Karl Marx: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx

Emile Durkheim: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Durkheim

Max Weber: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber

Herbert Spencer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Spencer

Vilfredo Pareto: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto

Ferdinand Toennies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Toennies

Jürgen Habermas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas

Talcott Parsons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talcott_Parsons