This document provides an overview of sociology and related concepts. It discusses key sociological thinkers like Marx, Durkheim and Weber. It also summarizes different sociological perspectives like functionalism, conflict theory and symbolic interactionism. Finally, it outlines what sociologists study - how and why people interact in groups, societies and institutions.

1. Society and Culture Session 2

6. Sociology Sociology is the systematic study of how people interact in social groups.

11. The Sociological Imagination

15. The Sociological Imagination Mills set forth his own conception of how a social scientist should undertake the work. He conveys a sense of what it means to be an intellectual who concentrates on the social nature of man and who seeks that which is significant.

22. Seventh, one should not be afraid ,in the preliminary stages of speculation, to think in terms of imaginative extremes.

42. That: Humans are Self aware Social Behavior shaped by groups

43. Society: System of interaction: individuals, groups, institutions. Human Beings "oriented" towards one another: Shared understandings, Meaningful interaction The Social as an "emergent reality" : - Peter Berger

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