Tag: Social group

  • INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF SOCIOLOGY by Robert E. Park and Ernest W. Burgess

    TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter I. Sociology and the Social Sciences PAGE I. Sociology and “Scientific” History 1 II. Historical and Sociological Facts 6 III. Human Nature and Law 12 IV. History, Natural History, and Sociology 16 V. The Social Organism: Humanity or Leviathan? 24 VI. Social Control and Schools of Thought 27 VII. Social Control…

  • Ethnomethodology: how people make sense of their life

    Introduced by the American sociologist Harold Garfinkel, ethnomethodology is, together with symbolic interactionism and dramaturgical, one of the most relevant perspective in the field of qualitative research. This tradition concerned with studying routines of everyday life and their production. How people make sense of their lives? The order and harmony of our lives depends on…