Your Sociology 100 Journey © Dr. Francis Adu-Febiri,

Your Sociology 100 Journey Sociology 100 –introduces you to factual information [and how it is produced] about the social world –Engages you to deepen your understanding of concepts/theories –Challenges you to think and apply concepts/theories

The Five Signposts on Your Sociology 100 Journey Structure & Organization of Social Relationships Bright Side & Dark Side of Society Key Concepts, Research and Theories Sociology Pioneers: Jane Adams, Peter Berger Auguste Comte, Charles Cooley, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx Charles Wright Mills, Ferdinand Tonnies, Max Weber, John Porter, Ruth Morris Synthetic Thinking, Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Design Thinking

Signposts on the Journey Signpost #1 Structure & Organization of Social Relationships

Signposts on the Journey Your Sociology 100 journey will bring you face-to-face with the structure and dynamics of Social Relationships and their contexts that underlie the peace, passions, pleasures, and pains we experience as individuals living in human society. Structure & Organization of Social Relationships: –Social Groups –Social status positions and roles –Human Culture –Human Socialization –Structured inequality –Social Institutions

Signposts on the Journey Signpost #2 Bright Side & Dark Side of Society

Signposts on the Journey You will see the facts of the bright side and the dark side of society: –Improvements in human welfare Evolution of society Innovations in society –The possibilities of Socialization –Abuses of culture –Crime –Violence –Suicide –Poverty –Inequality –Oppression –Opportunities to make a difference

Signposts on the Journey Signpost #3 Key Concepts, Research and Theories

Signposts on the Journey You will encounter key concepts, research, and theories about social relationships. –Social Forces –Sociological Imagination –Social Interaction –Political Economy –Culture –Social Construction of Reality –Human Agency –Looking Glass Self –Social Research: Methodology, Methods, Techniques, Ethics –Sociological Paradigms: Functionalism, Social Conflict, Feminism

Signposts on the Journey Signpost #4” –You will meet key players in the genesis and evolution of sociology, including Canadian Sociology

Signposts on the Journey Jane Adams, Peter Berger Auguste Comte, Charles Cooley Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx Charles Wright Mills, Ferdinand Tonnies, Max Weber, Annie MacLean, Herbert Ames, Carl Dawson, Harold Innis, Aileen Ross, Hellen Abell, Kathleen Herman, John Porter, Ruth Morris Signpost #4: Key Players

Signposts on the Journey Signpost #5 Thinking & Application

Signposts on the Journey You will be provided with opportunities to think and apply concepts/theories to real and hypothetical issues: –Critical Reviews –Question and Justification –Multiple-choice Midterm Examination –Final Examination

Signposts on the Journey You can make use of the opportunities to TRANSFORM INFORMATION you learn in Sociology 100 into a RESOURCE to solve social problems or prevent problems: –An optional Service-Learning project

Signposts on the Journey Signpost #5: Thinking and Application Creative Thinking Critical Thinking Synthetic Thinking Design Thinking ACTION: Service-Learning

CONCLUSION: Your Job Your job in this course is to “commit sociology”. That is, – understand –question – analyze – evaluate and – apply the key concepts, research and theories in the contexts of social relationships in your life and the lives of other people in your family, school, workplace, playplace, community, country and the global society HAVE FUN!