A Review of Issues of the “Reference Standards of Sociology”

Abstract

Reference Standards of Sociology have various functions as well as acting as a guarantee of the quality of undergraduate education. They function to help departments (1) cope with globalization, (2) offer academic identification, and (3) prevent teachers from being isolated in educational situations. Their distinctive characteristics notably emerge in “generic skills” rather than “disciplinary specific skills.” Another characteristic of the standards is the coherence among sociologists without a specific definition of sociology, as well as the tendency to combine antinomies. Due to these characteristics, sociologists need to continuously rethink and improve the reference standards, and one significant way to do this is through comparisons and reflections of the process.