Chapter 2 Learning Objectives

2.1 Understand that sociology developed as a way to explain social patterns and social change and is one of a family of social science disciplines located within the liberal arts.

2.2 Understand that knowledge is socially located and develops within particular intellectual and national traditions and different social networks and institutional settings.

2.3 Identify core theoretical concepts in the discipline.

2.4 Understand that the history of sociological theory is distinct from making theoretical arguments or applying theory to contemporary examples.