What Is Sociology?

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What is Sociology What is sociology? The word sociology is derived from both Latin and Greek origins. The Latin word: socius, "companion"; -ology, "the study of", and in Greek , "word", "knowledge". (Des Manuscrits de Sieyès. 1773–1799) Sociology is a science of social interaction and social organization. In explaining social interaction and social organization, sociologists look at how people in groups construct attitudes, beliefs, values and behavior, and how these in turn influence social interaction and social organization. An understanding of social interaction and social organization allows sociologists to identify social problems and to suggest strategies for social change. (Cragun, R.T. and Cragun, D.,2011) Sociology advances in two ways. First, as a way of seeing, Sociology aims to go beyond commonsensical beliefs about how human beings as a group live and think. Sociology asks you to take a fresh look at a wide range of your social experience: the way you are brought up in family, how you are educated, how and why you work, what politics means to you, what love means to you, why people form groups, why traditions survive, how nations disintegrate and so on. Second, as a set of intellectual tools, Sociology encourages you to study social life in a rigorous and systematic way. Through this, you learn more about yourself and your place in society than the untrained observer. Sociology as a discipline has a long history. It has constantly updated itself to meet new challenges. As we move into the 21st century, we face a world increasingly connected by new technologies of communication, joint by the pursuit of economic well-being, excited by new modes of entertainment, divided by the utilization of power and shadowed by global environmental hazards. Sociology provides a unique gateway to these public as well as personal issues. (Cragun, R.T. and Cragun,
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