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Sociology
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Plato(429-347 BC) is a scientist who developed a social philosophy and discusses the elements of the social elements of the state. Aristotle (384-322 BC) who also discusses the ethics of social relations, namely, how human behavior in their dealings with fellow human beings or in life socialnya. In addition there are social scientists who discusses Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean Jacques Rousseau.
Auguste Comte (1798 - 1857) coined the term sociology. Chomte argues that the social behavior and events in the community can be observed and measured scientifically.
The development of sociology emerged from economi determininsme theory that was developed by Friedrich Engels and Karl Mark. This theory says that the economic factor-factor pattern and control of all public institutions. later, Herbert Spencer developed a systematic penelelitian society and concluded that the development of human society is an evolutionary process that rise - low level of form that forms the yag higher.
sociology developed rapidly in the 20th century, especially in France, Germany, and the United States. The development of each country vary due to developments in every country in the background backs on the social and historical conditions.
Sociology era Herbert Spencer and Auguste Comte was influenced by the schools of philosophy and psychology. Only when Emile Durkheim for the first time using the methods of scientific research in assessing demographic information and various countries, and studied the relationship between suicide rates, factors of religion and the status of comradeship, the sociology really - really escape the influence of philosophy. The review followed by Max Weber's sociology of action and social interaction.
Max Weber argued that the subject of sociology is a social act and not all human action-oriented social action belonging to someone else who include social action. Weber held that the individual - the individual yag objectively real, and society is only one name that refers to a group of individuals who act as the basic unit. Thought was also proposed as Karl Marx (1818 - 1883) who consider that human history is the history of class struggle. Marx argued that capitalism as a result, European societies are divided into two classes, the bourgeoisie who control production assets, and the class of proletarians who are poor and oppressed. Marx suggested that the proletariat fighting for mendrobak injustice through the struggle to create a classless society.
The development of sociology through the most dynamic phase, when emerging thinkers - thinkers from the University of Frankfurt German research institutions which lebi known Frankfurt School is trying to connect knowledge and practitioners of community life. Three major thinkers is Max Horkheimer, Theodor. W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse. Subsequently forwarded by Jorgen Habermas who based on the paradigm of communication through mass media.
There is new thinking about the sociology of difusionisme, functionalism, and structuralism.
1. Difusionisme; emphasis on the influence of individual communities are interdependent and believe, that the social changes that occurred as a society to absorb the various cultures of other societies.
2. Functionalism; memnadang society as a network of institutions - institutions, like marriage and religion, so that changes in an institution leads to changes in other institutions
3. Structuralism; emphasizes the social structure of the most influential thing in society, and argued that the role and social status determine human behavior,
Based on the view - the view over Alex Inkeles (1965) mix different concept. So in saying sociology as the study of social relationships, social institutions and society. Study of sociology is growing so Pitirim A, Sorikin say that sociologists studying the three aspects, namely
a. Sociology studies the relationship and reciprocal influence between the various kinds of symptoms - symptoms of social, economic phenomenon such as between a religion, a family with morals, laws with economic, community and political movement, and so on
b. Sociology studies the relationship and influence of social reciprocal between non-social phenomena, such as geographic phenomena, biological phenomena, and so on.
c. Sociology also studies the characteristics - common characteristics of all types of social phenomena.
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