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.
Emile Durkheim is famous for formally establishing the acedemic discipline of Sociology. His work was primarily concerned with understanding how the integrity and coherance ofâ¦ societies could be maintained with respect to modernity - his first work being 'The Division of Labor in Society' in 1883.