The Origins of Sociological Thought

Objectives: What is a theory?  What are sociology’s major theoretical perspectives? Theory: a general statement about how some parts of the world fit together and how they work; an explanation of how two or more facts are related to one another

Why Study Sociology? 

Before you ever knew about Sociology, you had a world view. Being born to a middle class family in the United States, my family helped to shape my point of view.  If I had been born in Chile, China, or Chad I would have a different view of the word 

Origins of Sociological Thought 

Sociologists face TWO key questions

Essential Question: Who were the founders of Sociology and how did their theories shape the discipline of Sociology? 

How did we go about answering this question?  Summarizing