Social Enquiry 1

Social Enquiry 1 offers an introduction to the discipline of Sociology, which represents the study of people and cultures in industrial societies. This course begins by exploring historical changes in social, political and economic arrangements of cultural groups which provides a basis for understanding sociological approaches. It will examine the impact of social structure, roles, social functions, social inequality and class, on people's lives as well as what people do when they are interacting on a face-to-face level. Students will learn to develop a sociological imagination to enable them to view society and culture in a way that challenges the taken-for-granted, or commonsense, view of the world. This is an enabling course which provides students with techniques and strategies to prepare them for tertiary study by learning to take a scientific approach to examining social life in contemporary society.