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What is Sociology?
What is Sociology?
Sociology is the study of human social behaviour.
It is concerned with all group activities:
Economic
Social
Political
Religious
What is Sociology?
Sociologists study such areas as:
bureaucracy
community
deviant behaviour
family
social change
also such specific problems as crime, divorce, child
abuse and substance addiction
What is Sociology?
Sociology includes two major social sciences
Anthropology
The study of human beings, in particular the study of their
physical character, evolutionary history, racial
classification, historical and present-day geographic
distribution, group relationships and cultural history
Psychology
The science that deals with mental processes and
behaviour
What is Sociology?
Sociology emerged in the early 19th century
The term “sociology” was coined by Auguste Comte
(1798-1857) in 1838.
Comte hoped to unify all the sciences under sociology.
He believed that sociology had the potential to improve
society and to direct human activity, including the other
sciences.
However, sociology did not replace the other sciences.
Rather, it has developed a particular niche in the study of
social life.