Sociology is the scientific or academic study of social behavior, including its origins, development, organization, and institutions. It is a social science that uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about social order, social disorder and social change.
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Sociology of law is a diverse field of study that examines the interaction of law with other aspects of society, such as the development of legal institutions and the effect of laws on social change and vice versa.
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Often grouped with urban and rural sociology is that of community sociology or the sociology of community. Taking various communities—including online communities—as the unit of analysis, community sociologists study the origin and effects of different associations of people.
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Gono Alfred Nantim said... Comte desarve to be called the father of sociology not only because he coined the word sociology but because he layed the social basis to which the discipline is studied today.
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If you read the post you will realise that why I regard Comte as the father of sociology. He is the first man ever who called this stream of knowledge as Sociology. I agree that Marx, Durkheim and Weber also have also contibuted a lot in sociology. Recently I have added three articles on those founding fathers of sociology.
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Comte proposed sociology to be studied in two main parts (i) the social statics and (ii) the social dynamics. These two concepts represent a basic division in the subject-matter of sociology. The social statics deals with the major institutions of society such as family, economy or polity.
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Anonymous said... From my own POV, Auguste Comte is nonetheless the founding father of modern sociology. History has it that sociology was coined from the Greek n Latin word socius n logo in (1838) i.e. Science n society.
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The sociology of race and of ethnic relations is the area of the discipline that studies the social, political, and economic relations between races and ethnicities at all levels of society.
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A subfield of the sociology of health and illness that overlaps with cultural sociology is the study of death, dying and bereavement, sometimes referred to broadly as the sociology of death. This topic is exemplifed by the work of Douglas Davies and Michael C. Kearl.
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Auguste Comte is considered a forerunner in the field. Émile émile, durkheim who came After, comte is usually the most recognized as a father of, sociology. however
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Auguste Comte is the founding father of sociology.