学术英语（社科）_Unit 4.pptx

Unit4TheStudyofSocietyandPeople

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TextALead-intaskWhilereadingAfterreadingtasksThestudyofSociology

Lead-intaskCriticalthinkingReferenceanswersIknowtheword“sociology”.Ithinkitmeansthestudyofsociety.Doyouknowtheword“sociology”?Howdoyoudefineit?1

Lead-intaskCriticalthinkingReferenceanswersPeoplewhoareinterestedinhumansocietystudysociology.KarlMarx,whoisoneofthefoundingfathersofsociology,forexample,studiedthelivingconditionsoffactoryworkers.Whostudiessociology?Canyouusesomespecificexamplestotellwhattheystudy?2

WhilereadingThefocusedissuesociologyReadingtaskwhatsociologistsstudyandhowtheydoit

LanguagesupportWhilereadingItisaworldawashwithchange,markedbydeepconflicts,tensions,andsocialdivisions,aswellasbythedestructiveonslaughtofmoderntechnologyonthenaturalenvironment.(Para.1)“World”有两个后置定语，“awash”和“marked”。“marked”后面有一个并列结构“by…,aswellasby…”。

Languagesupport逗号后面是“sociology”的同位语。WhilereadingThesequestionsaretheprimeconcernofsociology,afieldofstudythatconsequentlyhasafundamentalroletoplayinmodernintellectuallife.(Para.2)

Languagesupport“Rangingfrom…to…”是这句话的状语，修饰表语“wide”。“Passingencountersbetweenindividualsonthestreet”指日常生活中的小事情，“globalsocialprocesses”指国际大事件，作者用这两者的差异表明社会学研究跨度很大。WhilereadingThescopeofsociologicalstudyisextremelywide,rangingfromtheanalysisofpassingencountersbetweenindividualsonthestreettotheinvestigationofglobalsocialprocesses.(Para.3)

Languagesupport注意这句话中的并列结构：“romanticlovewasregarded”as“aweakness”andas“akindofsickness”。WhilereadingRomanticlovewasregardedasatbestaweaknessandatworstakindofsickness.(Para.6)

Languagesupport后半句补充完整是“butbynomeansalwaystakenintoaccount”。WhilereadingTheopinionsofprospectivemarriagepartnersarequiteoftentakenintoacco