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This course familiarizes students with the subject matter of sociology in terms of broader understanding of society in relation to information technology. It helps students understand the importance of sociology as it relationship to other sciences. More importantly, it enhances the capability of understanding and analyzing society so that they can apply information technology with better understanding of social structure, social system, social processes, and social institutions to bring social change using new information technology.
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, students will be able to: • Describe sociology and discuss its relationship to other sciences (social sciences; history, psychology, anthropology, economics and political science including management and education as well as pure sciences; information technology, biology, and so on).
• Comprehend and explain the fundamental sociological concepts.
• Discuss social structure, social system, social processes, etc. in relation to information technology
• Analyze social structure, social system, cultural practices and develop a framework of applying new information technology in proper way.
Course Contents
a) What is Sociology? Sociological viewpoint; the origins of sociology; perspectives within sociology; sociology's four realms.
b) Relationship between sociology and other social and natural sciences: focus on sociology and information technology; biology; chemistry; anthropology; psychology; management; education; law, etc. c) Traditional society and technological society
d) Sociology and the twenty first century
a) Culture: culture and human intelligence; culture, nation, and society
b) The components of culture: symbols; language; values and beliefs; norms; ideal and real culture; material culture and technology; new information technology and culture
c) Development of culture around the world: cultural universals; globalization, diffusion, and technology
a) The sustaining forces of codes and custom: the more and social control; the major forms of social structure: social codes and the individual life
b) The major forms of social structure: types of social groups; the family; the community; city, country, and region; social class and caste; ethnic and racial groups; herd, crowd, and mass communication; associations and interests; the great association: political and economic; functional systems
c) Information technology and social structure
a) Social structure, societies and civilizations
b) Science, technology and society
c) Economic institutions,
d) Political institutions,
e) The family and kinship
f) Social differentiation and stratification
a) Change, development, progress
b) Factors in social change
c) Modernity
d) Post-modernity
e) Globalization and changing world
a) Sociology, social policy and social planning,
b) Social problems
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