Concept of Sociology

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Concept of sociology
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Part 1
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Value Emphasis
Values have always been an important part of the society. It have mainly defined
various norms and factors respecting the various other aspects of the society in theoretical
terms. In the field of sociology, values could be explained as the key element that have been
describing human groups and societies (Cherifi, Leila and Saloua, 307-314). It could also be
explained as individuality, independence or freedom of a person which have become an
important factor as these values described the person.
Norms
In sociological terms, norms are classified as the social expectation that have been
acting as a guide book for individual’s behavior (Miller and Deborah, 339-361). Norms
basically explains the fact that why people behave accordingly to the given situations or
under the circumstances. Typically it could be said that, according to the behavioral aspect in
the United States of America, people usually shakes hand when they are meeting with on
another formally.
Sanctions
In the field of sociology, sanction is defined as the ways or approaches of enforcing
compliances with the particular agenda of social norms (Hennen, 68-70) Sanctions are
considered to be positive when people celebrate conformity and it is considered to be
negative at the times of discourage or nonconformity.

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Myths
Myths in the term of sociology could be defined in a more casual ways. Sociologist
have defined the use of myth in defining many terms that could be aligned parallel with the
society. Myths have been used in sociology to define the misconceptions of masculinity or as
the myth of self-esteem (Nardin et al. 142-166). These factors which does not have a proper
definition or conflict definitions are defined as myths in the sociology.
Conformity
Conformity is a term which is used to define the typical influence in social
involvement, which happens to change the belief or the behavior in order to be fitting in a
group. In sociology, conformity have been playing a huge role (Woods, Peter and Martyn). In
the modern society, to fit in a certain group, there have to be a certain amount of acceptance
which either comes from within or just to fit in the group.
Folkways
The term itself provides vivid definition of the meaning. Folkways is defined as
certain way of defining the pattern of greeting or in which manner the individual is greeting
one another in their meetings (Treviño, 13-34). Folkways are the considered to be the
customs or the conventions that individual faces in their daily life.
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Innovation
In the field of sociology, the concept of innovation is often compared or aligned with
the concept of diffusion of innovation (Oommen, 832-856). It have been described a model
that would be used as a model that would be described as the how practices or ideas are

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adopted by the members of social welfare. Basic key elements that describe the theory of
innovation includes communication, innovation and the various channels of communication.
Retreatism
In sociology, the term retreatism is defined to be have been involving rejection of
both the goals and the means (Gardner et al. 932-1102). The term could also be defined as the
attitude of being resigned from the abandonment from the original goal or the means of
attaining any form of matter. For instance, one individual can take retirement or just drop out
from the normal concept of society and give up everything that is dearest to one normal
individual.
Social progress
The phrase social progress is defined as being the capacity of the society for meeting
the basic human needs to its citizens. It could be due to the establishment of the building
blocks that would be allowing the citizens and the communities for the enhancement and the
creating sustainable life quality of those citizens’ lives (Urry, 25-38). This process would be
enacted for creating the ground conditions for all the individuals for reaching their utmost
potential.
Part 2
Emile Durkheim asserted the authority of social facts is coercion by reason.
According to Durkheim, the elements of the society; practically all the elements that
includes religion and morality too are somewhat products of history (Ripstein, 119-152). It is
said by the author due to the fact that they possibly do not have any transcendent origin that
could pin point their place or start and also they are considered to be a part of the natural
world, thus they could be studied in scientific manner. It have been view by Durkheim that