HLTH 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 10: Temple University Press
6 Dec 2016
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Allan g. johnson article, the forest and the trees: sociology as life, practice, and. A: he practices sociology because there is so much suffering in the world and to end it we need to understand why it happens through sociology. His motivations are to end the suffering in the world which is also the goal of someone who practices public health. A: i don"t mean moral in the sense of being good instead of bad, but. People think sociology is something common and used in everyday life, where that is true sociology is also much more than that. People actually put in the effort to research and explain to others what sociology really is. For johnson it defines a core view of reality on which sociological practice of all kinds is based, consciously or not, and provides a touchstone for what it means to do sociology.
