Trait-based personality theories, such as those defined by Raymond Cattell define personality as the traits that predict a person's behavior. On the other hand, more behaviorally based approaches define personality through learning and habits.
This was one year after the first department of sociology was established at the University of Chicago. In 1919, a separate School of Sociology was created, and in 1930, the present Department of Sociology came into being. Following World War II, the department, along with the university as a whole, expanded rapidly. Before World War II the department had a masterâs program from which a handful of students had graduated.
Amongst the academic disciplines known as the Social Sciences, Sociology is considred to be new, when compared to the older disciplines such as political science, anthropology, economics and psychology to name a few. The French essayist Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes (sieyÃ¨s-1748), 1836 was perhaps the first to use the term. sociology