16th of July, 2019

Take Notes! Keeps your mind active!

Manoj ; SoE

Second class of the semester

The way you start a course,

You provide structure, expectations, round of introductions

My mental faculty is not agile enough to remember all the names.

Gradually we will get to know about each other.

Course structure

I assume that the class is diverse and people are from different background

Unpacking Sociology

What is sociology?

CBSE, NCERT ( Sociology ) [ Watch videos about sociology ]

Sociology is all inclusive. Different experiences in the class with be meaningful and helpful for this course.

What is sociology?

When you raise any question, what kind of answer do you expect?

panopticon

In real life we never ask a what question with a familiar object.

We ask a what question when we encounter everything new.

Have you watched 3 Idiots?

What is a machine?

Why do professors and textbooks bring this kind of definitions.

When you define you want to include all the points, you want to include all the characteristics.

In academia, in the discipline, when you define canal and river,

Canal

River

Attempt we make to define certain things.

Accurate definition.

Jargon is essential?

Provide Rancho kind of answers to sociology.

A universal kind of definition.

What do you get when you try to define something?

Define Table

When we define something we bring function and use of it.

Tables could be made of metal and glass.

You may have table with less than four legs.

The challenge is

A property which is common to all the tables.

Abstraction;

Food

Getting the essence out of the things.

Try to define because it gives you some meaning, sense, otherwise this world is diverse, every changing, how to grapple it, how to contain it in our mind.

What is the function of heart?

How do you define dance?

Its an art form.

It has movements with rhythm.

A set of movements that flow along with a music.

Its a rhythmic movement.

Dance: Understanding the ways of doing it.

It has movement. All the movements are not dance.

It usually comes with song.

Deliberately it brings a rhythmic pattern.

Function:

Its used to entertain, express, aesthetic enrichment of the audience,

Its a profession or amateur work.

Don't leave out amateur work.

Creating a boundary which only allows the phenomena, object, process.

We create a boundary.

Old Amitabh Bacchhan movie ( to give false witness )

Imaan Dharam

How big was the stolen thing? ( The Hen )

While defining bring both your hands, we specific.

Poetry and Sociology

The situations you will encounter.

What is sociology?

Why is this not education?!

We may have a look at the etymology.

Socio - Logy

The study of social behaviour of human beings

That's how Giddins has approached the question.

List down the topics which are studied in sociology.

 Caste system, social changes, class problem, gender, economic behaviour, religion, environment, social environment, tradition, rituals, patriarchy, marriage, art forms.

Don't jump to big words.

List down all the topics

Start with small words, think systematically.

Reduce the list and define the topic.

All the answers will be correct anwers.

Come up with one working definition, not a final definition.

A ten minute break is your right :) Yay!!

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Study of society

Human social relations

Study of relationships

Community

Society behaviour

Religion

Economic

Language

History

Art Forms

Transformation from rural to urban

Occupation

Class

Trade

Social issues

Way of thinking

Customs, Ritual

Dressing

Food ( Gastronomy )

Money / Currency

Resoruces

Geography ( Basawat )

Governance

Power

Laws

Ways of Punishment

Education, method of accepting knowledge

PolicyLife

Lifestyle

Livelihood

Architechture

Psychology, way of thinking

Upbrining,

Modes of transport

Celebration

Communication

ICT ; Use of technology

Ways of storing information

Entertainment Modes

Hierarchy

Economic background of people

Literature

Values and Ethics

What is the difference between

Structure: Something that reproduces itself.

Behaviour

Sociology is a collective analysis.

Are animals a part of sociology?

Sociology connects people, its the study of human interactions, its a structure based study.

What is NOT sociology?

If we discover alien life in other planets, will that be sociology?

Coming up with the idea of what is not sociology...

Delimiting the area of study is difficult.

Sociology is a careful analysis of human elements.

What does psychology do then? What does History do?

Why do we know different disciplines?

Human Problems: Biological, Psychological, Existential (theology),

Social Institution	Social Structure	Social Behaviour
Community	Economic	Human social relations
Religion	Language	Study of relationships
Language	History	Society behaviour
Customs, Ritual	Transformation from rural to urban	Language
History	Occupation	History
Governance	Class	Art Forms
Laws	Trade	Social issues
Ways of Punishment	Social issues	Way of thinking
Education, method of accepting knowledge	Customs, Ritual	Dressing
Policy	Dressing	Food ( Gastronomy )
	Money / Currency	Power
	Resoruces	Ways of Punishment
	Geography ( Basawat )	Lifestyle
	Power	Livelihood
	Ways of Punishment
	Livelihood
	Architechture

How humans should live in a society?

Sociology is the study of human centric world. Its inclusive and dynamic. It looks at the entire society

Collection of things

How an individual can behave might be different in isolation and in a mob.

Society is not like a salad plate. Its like the khichdi.

Crux of the matter:

Something happens with the entire society. Its not like a salad plate.

It like putting several ingredients in the boiling pot.

Society is something different.

Sociology as analysis of underlying factors that change the society and the individual.

On the surface you have diverse reality.

You have so many movements in this world. There should be one thing defining all the movements.

There are certain underlying principles that govern the world.

NEWTON Movie Reference:

Write notes !!

Physicists can make very broad generalisations.

Even sociologists try to generalise.

Karl Marx : What governs society is the mode of production. Relationships at the workplace.

Capitalism has taken various historic forms in different countries.

In capitalism you produce for selling.

When Max Weber, makes an attempt to understand modernisation?

What is the one thing that separates modern and traditional society?

Bureaucreatization.

It makes interactions impersonal.

Examples of underlying principles.

Relationship of society and individual is reciprocating. Society influences the individual and vice-versa.

The way children are named.

There are people who break the norms.

Entire society is not just the sum total of all the individuals. Its more than, not just an aggregate of the individual.

Social fact: sui genris (unique)

What is social fact? ( Week 1 Moodle Page )

Social facts are unique.

We found a lot of subsets.

In all the subsets one thing was common - humans

Feminism

Human interactions are different form those of animals.

Eg. Language

Identity of self

Social interactionists

Interaction of individual in society

Human interactions are really different.

Social interactions

Overlap between various categories.

Structure in a society is not a physical one.

Its the behaviour of the people.

Repeatitive behaviour make

Social structure must be reproduced.

Sociology: Helps us to understand our relations with others.

Understanding the rationale of things that are happening around you.

Sociologists help us to understand the problems.

Sociological Imagination

Very Small Task:

Sociology Text Books: Chapters of that book ; You'll get to know the course.

Harlombus, orange cover.

Readings for the next class: Social Fact

Do the core readings!

Thu: 8.40 am

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