Year: 2017 | Month: June | Volume 8 | Special Issue
Sociology in Our Lives: Premise and Promise
Abstract:
Sociology engages with the processes responsible for ordering of social reality and knowledge in accordance with socially generated and validated concepts. It builds on a premise that human lives are primarily ‘social’ and thereby their inter-connections and interactions constitute the subject matter of a discipline which is rooted in and concerned with the human quest to understand our social world. Sociology has survived through many limiting traditions or methodological orientations and has continued to evolve in its uniquely self-reflexive manner around the questions which brought it in existence. The
urge to understand the human condition and produce knowledge which can liberate/emancipate is as central to the sociological research in the present as it has been in the past.
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