What are the expectations for this course from students as well as lecturer. Examples of these are the nation state, the common vote, national armies, language, a national monetary unit, and media. Most people would consider sociology a hard science. However, many sociological texts are of a speculative nature and do not refer to exact measurements of this or that. In this respect, they resemble the soft sciences more.
Sociology has a beautiful sister science, namely anthropology.
Sociology is assumed to be dealing with large, complex societies in contrast to anthropology, which deals with smaller, less economically complex societies. Both sciences intermingle to some extent. This is due in part to the fact that the globalization process leaves ever smaller parts of the world untouched by Western culture, and in part to the fact that much of what happens in subcultures of various sorts in complex societies is best described using anthropological methods. This changing role of sociology with respect to anthropology may be seen as evidence of the dynamic forces at work in society. Media, of course, must be considered as one of the more important institutions that simultaneously support and transform society.