Week 1/ sociological perspectives

Sociology started with Auguste Comte who believed that the major goal was to understand society while it functions. He was a positivism thinker which meant he understood based off of science and saw sociology as three stages, theological, metaphysical and scientific stage. The theological stage was guided by religion, the metaphysical stage was the transitional phase and the scientific stage used positivism to understand society. The sociological perspective is looking at human behavior and its connection to society as a whole. Sociological perspectives helps you look into the deeper meaning of a society, helps everyone live in a diverse world and how society shapes our thoughts. The global perspective is the study of the world and how our society fits in it. Its important because where we live shapes our lives and the way we think about things. There are three different types of nations in our world, high income, middle income and low income countries. The high income countries are industrialized and contain the highest standard of living. Middle income countries have little industrialization with low income. Low income countries have little to no industrialization and most people are poor. You may think you have it off worse then others but depending on where you live someone may have it worse then you.

In the video it is talked about how people don't always look at the reality of the world. Multiple perspectives are needed to describe something because you aren't always seeing everything and it is allowing social reality to be cared for. Think of it as viewing something off a platform because when you can see from high ground then you can see what all is going on around you. You must view something from every angel possible to get the full picture and to understand the structure of the coial world and what is wrong with it.

You:
One thing I can do to benefit myself and society is to be open-minded with new things and learn about it before I decide anything about it
One thing I am able to do to negatively affect society and myself would be littering and not taking care of our environment.

Society:
One thing society can do in a positive way to affect me is by providing me with clean air so I can keep my lungs clean and healthy.
One thing society can do in a negative way to affect me is to take away any freedom I have. Without my freedom I might not be able to go to school.

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