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1-Three Divisions in Sociological Inquiry

•Theoretical Perspectives or Paradigms

•The Functionalist Paradigm

•The Conflict Paradigm

•The Symbolic Interactionist Paradigm

•Level of Analysis

•Macrosociology

•Microsociology

2-Fuzzy Nature of Science

•Nature of what sociologists study is fuzzy

•Predict what most people will likely do under certain circumstances

•Many variables and factors involved

•All scientific inquiry has degree of fuzziness or uncertainty

•Uncertainty principle: important limits on science’s ability to measure and predict behavior of physical objects

•Sensitive dependence on initial conditions: Chaos theorists idea that a very small difference may lead to enormous change to the outcome

 

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Sociology is the study of society and sociologists study various social institutions like family, religion, class, political institutions, etc. They also study various social problems like racism, gender discrimination, religious bias, and ethnocentrism through sociological imagination. They also study these social institutions and social problems through various theoretical perspectives like functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. Sociologists also study societal problems through scientific methods. 

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