Skip to Main Content

Introduction to Sociology: What is Sociology?

This guide will help sociology students find resources and information on sociology topics, issues, and perspectives.

picture

Video

Class resources

What is Sociology?

Sociology

A social science that focuses on society, human social behaviour, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.

Microsociology & Macrosociology

Microsociology is one of the main levels of analysis of sociology, concerning the nature of everyday human social interactions and agency on a small scale: face to face.

Macrosociology is a large-scale approach to sociology, emphasizing the analysis of social systems and populations at the structural level, often at a necessarily high level of theoretical abstraction.

Links

Crash Course: Sociology 

Youtube video channel from crash course on Sociology

 

Global Social Change Research Project: Understanding the World Today 

This website links to various reports about societal change over time. The reports are created from data sets freely available on the Internet and form a comprehensive view of society and social change. The second part of the site contains links to other web resources divided into subject areas such a theory, national profiles, and history.

 

Sociological Images

"Sociological Images encourages all kinds of people to exercise and develop their sociological imagination by presenting brief discussions of compelling and timely imagery that span the breadth of sociological inquiry."

 

Socioquest: Foundations of Sociology

"This page is part of a larger website of sociological teaching material. Assignments located on this page include:Hypothesis Testing in the Social SciencesCareers in SociologyDurkheim's Study of SuicideIdentifying Sociological Perspectives"