Sociology

Sociology comes from two latin words:

Societas = society

Logo = study

is society.

Understand society and how it works.

• the cause and effect of social relations between individuals and these social groups as well as customs and institutions that emerge from these relationships and the effect of these groups and organizations (De la Torre, 2006). 

Auguste Comte

Society should be study like sciences

Its main focus is the empirical observation

Scientific: it formulates laws

Emile Durkheim

Instead of studying isolated facts they should be compared.

Makes comparisons between various groups and social phenomena in order to discover the differences and similarities. 

Max Weber

Proposes an ideal type that accentuated the most typical features of a historical phenomenon to see it more clearly. 

Ideal categories are hypothetically specific individuals (individuals, social situations, changes, revolutions, institutions, classes), made with the most important elements of the researcher to perform accurate comparisons. 

Mental creations are called ideal because they exist as an idea (De la Torre, 2006).

Karl Marx

Proposed the study of society through class struggle culminating in communism.

Talcott Parsons and Merton

Based on positive and negative functions of social structures.