'Though they take very different approaches to study society, both 'micro' and 'macro' sociology aid our ability to understand the social world. Comment.

Micro sociology considers that individuals have meanings and motives which drive their behavior. Their behavior is not driven and coerced by the society.

While macro sociologists like Durkheim advocates that society coerce individuals to act in particular way. It considers and study working of society as a whole.

Micro sociology describe the behavior of individuals and small scale interactions. Phenomenologists argue that there is no social order in the reality. The reality is just a intermix of personal experiences. Members of society classify their world into diffrent categories. Alfred schutz subscribed to this view.

Ethnomethodologists like Harold Garfinkel also argues that the organised social reality is a myth. But members of society describe their world according to common sense that they have.

Weber argues that since individuals have meanings and motives, hemu first understand them to understand the society and interactions.

Macro sociologists like Talcott Parsons argues that society is made of different institutions and they perform some functions to integrate the society.

Taking the macro view, Durkheim argued that society has its own existence and is sui generis. Hence it is independent of its members. However members act like substrate for the interaction in the society.

Both micro and macro view complement the limitations of other. For example- macro view can explain the institutions like Beurocracy, democracy etc but the real interaction between individuals inside those institutions can be explained by micro sociologists.

Hence both micro and macro view of sociology enhance our understanding of social world by explaining facts of society through different perspectives.