2. WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY
• Etymology: socio/ socius and logos
• the science of the origin, growth and
evolution of social customs, standards and
institutions. It analyzes and defines them, and
studies the causes that tend to force people
below normal standards, thus showing us how
to prevent recurrent lapses from these norms,
as well as to relieve abnormal conditions.
3. Branches of sociology
• Pure sociology: theoretical and historical
sociology
• Applied sociology: social pathology, or social
economy, or social legislation and social work.
• Critics: However there is limited focus on
social solution of the problem HUMANISTIC
SOCIOLOGY
4. HUMANISTIC SOCIOLOGY
• Humanism is the root; people matter
– Super ordinate science of humanity which calls us
to action and to change the world.
– Not just “what is” but “what ought to be”
– implementing a science of humanity is a matter of
envisioning an ideal society and integrating the
disciplines in the service of humanity.
– All knowledge is a power strategy.
– Knowledge for what? Creating society that meets
human needs
5. HUMANISTIC SOCIOLOGY
• Sociology is not merely academic discipline
but based on the real world problem
• Sociology leads to social action and social
betterment
• Sociology is the study of how to make better
world
6. HUMANISTIC SOCIOLOGY
• Sociology should have certain Orientation,
Dream, and Ideal
• Sociology talk about value and designing and
implementing social systems for people
• The sociological understanding is not that just
"I" create reality but that "we" create reality
together.
7. Review of Humanistic Sociology
1. People as subject
1. subject as being and becoming
2. subject has needs from physiological to self actualization
3. Subject who can actualize him/ herself, pursuing and realizing certain
purpose
4. Subject as active actor participate to realize certain purpose not passive
object of manipulation and control
2. Relation between experts/ students of sociology and people: I and thou
not I and it
1. Expert as collaborator
2. People are empowered not manipulated or controlled
3. Expert and people are collaborated and cooperated to realize the ideal
society
4. Expert and people involve in Humanistic conversation
3. Sociology is at service to people
1. Interdependency of psychology and sociology
8. REFERENCES
• Chapin, F Stuart.1918. What is Sociology. The
Scientific Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 3,pp. 261-264
• William Du Bois and R. Dean Wright.2004.
What is Humanistic Sociology?. The American
Sociologist, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Winter, 2002), pp.
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