What is a sociological phenomenon?

Answer 1

A social phenomenon is anything that influences or is influenced by organisms sufficiently alive to respond to one another. One aspect of Sociology is the study of social phenomenon's. Love is a social phenomenon.

Answer 2

Whenever two or more people interact with or relate to each other a sociological phenomenon is generated. If this is adopted by other people then it becomes a sociological process.

Two people may have an opinion or viewpoint independently of each other. That is not a sociological phenomena. So if two people watch a TV program and independently think that the program was "accurate, convincing and clearly presented" but say nothing to the other person, then there is no sociological phenomena. If they do tell each other what they think, and both of them agree, then a "norm" has been created. A norm is a standard accepted by two or more people.

If this norm is shared with an increasingly large number of people it becomes an accepted norm, culminating perhaps in its official as "The Best TV Documentary of the Year".

Norms are a powerful and universal sociological phenomenon. For example: all the legal rules and regulations that direct and control our lives; what scientists and technologists agree are true and useful descriptions of physical, chemical, biological and human objects and processes are norms and when someone says "honesty is the best policy" they are quoting a norm.

Answer 3

A sociological phenomenon is a pattern of behavior or interaction among individuals or groups that can be observed and studied within a society. These phenomena can range from social movements and cultural trends to deviant behaviors and social inequalities, and they help sociologists understand how society functions and evolves.