我們所身處的世界，是一個強調個體，並且趨向於在個體身上尋找行動理由的世界。翻開報紙、打開電視，各樣的事件充斥在我們的周邊，多數人談論這些事件時，總是過多強調事件主角的個性、人格以及個體選擇等，卻忽略了人是生活在這個社會之中，人的行為與選擇，有很大一部份受到社會結構的影響與限制。社會學的觀點就在幫助我們理解事情如何牽連在一起，幫助我們穿透表象，理解設我們所身處的世界是什麼樣子、以及我們如何參與在其中。
各位如果到書局翻閱社會學相關的讀本，會看到多數教科書都有著諸如文化、社會制度、社會不平等、社會變遷等章節，但是在表面上相似的章節安排之外，社會學領域內其實有甚多不同觀點相互競逐，因而並不容易找到一個簡單的方式來歸納社會學的意涵。然而，這並不代表社會學只是諸多研究成果的彙總。社會學有著自身獨特的視角，用來觀看我們平日所習以為常的世界。在課程上，將介紹一些社會學如何觀看的視野，並選擇有趣的讀本來達此目的。期盼透過社會學的學習，培養獨立思考的能力、瞭解自我與社會的關係，以及提供觀察與思考各種社會現象的途徑，進而應用到自身之專業領域。

The world where we are is a world where individuals are focused and tend to find reasons for action in individuals. Turn on the newspaper and open the TV. Various events fill us around us. When most people discuss these events, they always emphasize the personality, personality, and personal choices of the protagonists of the incident, and ignore that people live in this society, and a large part of their behavior and choices are affected and restricted by social structure. The perspective of social science is to help us understand how things turn together, help us penetrate appearances, understand what the world we are in and how we participate in it.
If you go to the Bookstore to read social related books, you will see that most of the teaching and science books have chapters such as culture, social system, social inequality, and social changes. However, in addition to the similar chapter arrangements on the surface, there are actually many different perspectives in the social field that compete with each other, so it is not easy to find a simple way to understand the meaning of social science. However, this does not mean that social science is just a summary of many research results. Society has its own unique perspective to see the world we usually think is common. In the course, some social perspectives will be introduced and interesting readings will be selected for this purpose. We hope to cultivate the ability to think independently, understand the relationship between yourself and society, and provide ways to observe and think about various social phenomena through social learning, and then apply it to your own professional field.

介紹社會學基本概論

Introduction to the basic social studies

1. Schaefer, Richard T.著，劉鶴群等譯:社會學(第12版)。臺北市:東華，2015。
2. Zygmunt Bauman著，朱道凱譯:社會學動動腦。臺北:群學，2002。

1. Schaefer, Richard T., Liu Yongqun, et al.: Social Science (12th Edition). Taipei City: Donghua, 2015.
2. Zygmunt Bauman, Zhu Daokai: Social Science Movement. Taipei: Groups, 2002.