The Importance Of Globalization In Sociology

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Sociology is the study of human social relationships and institutions. Sociology subject matter is diverse, ranging from crime to religion, from the family to the state, from the divisions of race and social class to the shared beliefs of a common culture, and from social stability to radical change in whole societies. In conflict assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups. In socialization is the process by which people learn their culture is the process by which people learn their culture. Cultural globalization refers to the transmission of conceptions, denouements and values around the world in such a way as to elongate and intensify convivial cognations. In the contemporary period, and from the commencement of the twentieth century, this process is marked by the prevalent consumption of cultures that have been diffused by the Internet, popular culture media, and international peregrinate. One of the basic elements of social structure is status, a recognized social position that an individual occupies. Each position has duties and responsibilities, usually in relation to complementary status positions. No person holds only one status position, he or she holds many. All the statuses that a person holds at a given time are called a status …show more content…

It is the purview of sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and criminologists to study how these norms are engendered, how they transmute over time and how they are enforced. Norms are rules and prospects by which members of society are conventionally guided. Deviance is an absence of conformity to these norms. Gregarious norms differ from culture to culture. For example, a deviant act can be committed in one society that breaks a gregarious norm there, but may be mundane for another

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