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Unit 4
The Study of Society and People
Text A
Critical reading and thinking of Text A
Text Analysis How do the authors develop the text?
2 Explain what is sociology, including definition, scope, nature& objectives, content, and functions.
Unit 4
The Study of Society and People
Unit Contents
Lead-in Text A Text B Listening Speaking Writing
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Lead-in
Task Listen to a talk twice and complete the following notes.
Unit 4
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• Text A – Critical reading and thinking – Difficult sentences – English language for academic purpose
• Specialized vocabulary • Collocations • Formal and informal English • Signpost language
e.g. comparison between common people and sociologists in explaining the mass murder. Common people
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sociologists
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The two teens were obsessed with the video game. Many commentators denounced the easy availability of weapons. Others saw the tragedy as a symbol of the emptiness of suburban life.
1 The questions the speaker raises in the talk are:
need an SUV a Why does everyone ___________ ? b Why can‘t people carpool ______? c Why is she spending her money on lottery tickets _____________? d Why doesn‘t the government invest more in public transportation ____________________________? e Why is the state running a lottery a _______________? _____________in convenience store f What about that ___________________________? cup of premium coffee you bought
Look beyond the surface of their actions; Study the social context; Compare this tragedy with other mass murders to see if there was a pattern in the group characteristics (social class, race, gender, age, or cultural background);
• Tragic mass murder at Columbine High School
• Ethnic cleansing
• War in Kosovo • How do the authors describe the world we live today in? awash with change, marked by deep conflicts, tensions, social divisions; marked by the destructive onslaught of modern technology
Unit 4
The Study of Society and People
Text A
Critical reading and thinking of Text A
Text Analysis How do the authors develop the text?
2 Explain what is sociology, including definition, scope, nature& objectives, content, and functions.
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Unit 4
The Study of Society and People
Text A
Critical reading and thinking of Text A
Text Analysis How do the authors develop the text?
2 Explain what is sociology, including definition, scope, nature& objectives, content, and functions.
Unit 4
The Study of Society and People
Text A
Critical reading and thinking of Text A
Text Analysis How do the authors develop the text?
1 Introduce the topic of sociology by using the example.
学术英语 社科
Academic English for Social Sciences
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The Study of Society and People
We live in a world today that is increasingly more complex. Why are the living conditions of our times so different from those of earlier times? How will our lives change in the future? These are the questions that lead us to the study of sociology.
2 Sociologists study social patterns that many people share look _______________________________, for root causes of such social patterns in the way society is _____________________________________________ ____________________. organized and governed
What is sociology?
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Definition: the study of human social life, groups, and societies. Wide scope of sociological study: ranging from the analysis of passing encounters between individual on the street to the investigation of global social processes.
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The Study of Society and People
Text A
Critical reading and thinking of Text A
Text Analysis How do the authors develop the text?
2 Explain what is sociology, including definition, scope, nature& objectives, content, and functions.

Functions sociology serves:
→ show us the need to look beyond the surface of people‘s actions and study the social context;
→ teach us to try to identify general patterns of behavior and be systematic in explaining the social influences on these patterns.
Unit 4
The Study of Society and People
Text A
Critical reading and thinking of Text A
Text Analysis How do the authors develop the text?
2 Explain what is sociology, including definition, scope, nature& objectives, content, and functions.
Unit 4
Critical reading and thinking of Text The Study of Text Analysis Society and People How do the authors develop the text?
Text A
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2 Explain what is sociology, including definition, scope, nature& objectives, content, and functions.

Using the example of love to illustrate the nature and objectivities of sociology.
→ Love expresses a mutual physical and personal attachment two individuals feel for one another. → Falling in love is an experience arising from universal human emotions.
However falling in love is not an experience most people across the world have; and having no connection with marriage. e.g. In the Middle age and for centuries after ward (Para. 6) Romantic love (Para 7) Among both rich and poor, the decision of whom to marry was made by family and kin. e.g. India (Para 8)
Content: Sociology studies human life and social and historical influences on it.

Sociology shows the need to take a much broader view of why we are as we are, and why we act as we do.