The Importance of Patterns in Sociological Perspective

Importance of Patterns:

1. People within a society relate in patterned ways.

2. A group is more than the sum of the individuals within the group.

3. People within a group behave differently than they would outside the group.

4. Groups encourage their members to behave in similar ways, or patterns, and to value these ways.

Sociological Perspective:

1. Focuses on groups rather than individuals.

2. It focuses on people at a group level.

Sociological Imagination:

1. Ability of individuals to see the relationship between events.

2. Look at our own society as outsiders.