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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 society?
 A society,
or a human society, is a large social
grouping sharing:
1) the same geographical or social territory
2) subject to the same political authority
3) dominant cultural expectations
What Do Sociologists Study?
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Sociologists study such areas as:
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bureaucracy
community
deviant behaviour
family
social change
also such specific problems as crime, divorce, child abuse and
substance addiction
What is Sociology?
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Sociology includes two major social sciences
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Anthropology
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The study of human beings, in particular the study of their physical
character, evolutionary history, racial classification, historical and presentday geographic distribution, group relationships and cultural history
Psychology
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The science that deals with mental processes and behaviour
What is Sociology?
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Sociology emerged in the early 19th century
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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.
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However, sociology did not replace the other sciences. Rather, it has
developed a particular niche in the study of social life.