Introduction: What is Sociology?
I.	What is Sociology?
-Sociology Defined
- Monopoly? Marriage? Why Are You Here? 
-Micro and Macro Elements of Sociology.
		-Sociology Versus Common Sense.

II.	The Sociological Perspective/Imagination
-What is the Sociological Perspective? 
-Mills: Troubles and Issues.
-Social location and inequality: Titanic
- Paths of Least Resistance. 
- Three Sociological Assumptions.

III.	Sociology vs. Other Field

IV.	Under What Conditions Did Sociology Emerge? 
- Where, when, why?
-Auguste Comte and Positivism.
- Influenced by Enlightenment (17th and18th Century) and French and American Revolutions (Late 18th century).
-Industrial Revolution (End of 18th and early 19th century).
- Tradition vs. science.
     
    V. Impact of Sociology: Social Reform
-American Sociology
-Progressive Era (early 20th Century): Addams and Du Bois
-F.D.R. and New Deal. 
  
VI. 	Sociological Research Method.