Thursday, September 18, 2008

Sociology

Sociology is the study of society, including patterns such as social relations, social stratification, social interaction, and culture. Sociology can be two people chatting on the street to the study of global social interaction. Sociological research provides educators, planners, lawmakers, administrators, developers, business leaders, and people that want to help with social problems.The goal of Sociological research is to understand more about the social world. Sociology also share deep ties to things such as economics, psychology, and anthropolog. Sociologists study the human society and social action by observing the groups and social organization people form, as well as religious, political, and business organizations. They also study social interactions of some people and groups. Most of the sociologists work with one or more specialties. In practice, some sociologists might combine different research methods, since different methods makes different types aspects of societies. A way of using different types of research is in the study of the Internet. The Internet interest lots of sociologists in lots of ways: as a tool for research, for example, using online questionnaires instead of paper ones. Sociology of the Internet includes analysis of online communities, virtual communities and virtual worlds, organizational change through the Internet. Online communities can be observed by using network analysis.

1 comment:

David Carpenter said...

I can see you did the research. Good job. The next step is to think about the research and write in your own words what you understand.