But there are greater differences by age. Just 23 percent of Americans age 30 and older think transgender students should be able to pick which facilities to use, compared to 35 percent of Americans under 30.s the issue of the rights of transgender people comes more to the foreground, schools across the U.S. have been confronted with a new issue: how to handle gender-specific bathrooms and locker rooms.
Sociology as a social science discipline. Sociology is one of the core disciplines of the social sciences, along with political science, economics and anthropology. So one might imagine that it is a coherent, unified, and comprehensive science with a well-defined subject matter and a clear set of methods.
A Classroom Exercise for Promoting Discussion. The question of whether sociology is a science has a long history in the discipline. It was. addressed by virtually all the classical social theorists. But for some time the debate about the. scientific status of sociology was muted.