Making Sense of Society: Understanding the Social World

MAKING SENSE OF
SOCIETY
UNDERSTANDING
THE SOCIAL
WORLD

Table of Contents
Section 1...........................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Main body........................................................................................................................................3
Qualitative and quantitative research.....................................................................................3
Alienation...............................................................................................................................4
Social movements...................................................................................................................4
Sustainability..........................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
Section 2...........................................................................................................................................7
Community and social cohesion are in decline in the contemporary society ........................7
INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................7
Concept and theories of social cohesion ...............................................................................7
CONCLUSION .....................................................................................................................9
REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................10

Section 1
INTRODUCTION
Sociology is the study of social life and social cause related to human behaviour change.
It help to analyse the structure of group and society to identify how people interact with each
other on different situations. The following file covers qualitative and quantitative research,
alienation, social movement and sustainability.
Main body
Qualitative and quantitative research
Qualitative research are those research which are involving qualitative aspect or which
help to analyse results by essay or words (Queirós, Faria and Almeida, 2017). On the other hand
quantitative research are those research which are used to identify outcomes in numbers, graphs
and statistics. Social world can be understand by using both concepts. For example, when a
researcher want to analyse the behaviour of any group then that researcher need to observe them
while talking, reacting and responding to reach other. Hence, observing their attitude and
behaviour and prepare report based on observations in essay paragraph will determine that
research is done on qualitative basis. Hence, it is essential for researcher to conduct qualitative
research to analyse the behaviour of their targeted group.
On the other hand, quantitative research are also helpful for researchers to conduct their
research on social issues because here they are required to select a number of individuals and
then analyse their results by using graphs and charts so that they can record those data which
help them to understand their outcomes easily. Secondly, data related to sociology will not be
concluded by analysing behaviour of one person only but it required to analyse analyse the data
of whole group or society. Therefore, it is essential for researcher to analyse how many people
they are selecting to observe their behaviour in appropriate time phase. Hence, it is essential for a
researcher to focus on both qualitative data and quantitative data to conduct their research on
sociology.