Based on my Lecture Sociology Definitions at Maju 2016

2. •The Science of Social phenomena (F.H. Giddings)
•The Science of Institutions (Durkhim)
•The Science of Social organization and social change (Kovalevsky)
•The Science Studying human relationship (Simmel)
•The Study of Social action (Weber)
•The Science of Society (Ward & Graham Sumner)
•The Science of collective behavior (Park)

3. •Ken Brown: Sociology is the systematic or planned and organized
study of human groups and social life in modern society
•William E.Cole: Sociology is the study of social system.
•Ian Robertson: Sociaology is the sientific study of human society
and social behavior.
•JohnJ.Maccionis: sociology is the scientific study of human
society.
•Kalhoun, Kught and keller: sociology is the study of human
society including both social action and social organization,

5. Auguste Comte
1836
French
Social Physics

6. SOCIAL STATICS SOCIAL DYNAMICS
 Order and Stability
 How and way do
Societies hold together
and endure?
 Social change
 What makes societies
change and what shapes
the nature and direction
of the changes?

7. Ibn e khaldun
1332-1406
Tunis
Ilmul-Imran

8. Herbert Spencer
1820-1903
England
Organisms, Economy

9. Karl Marx
1818-1883
German
Socialism

10. Emile durkheim
1858-1917
French
Social order

11. Wex weber
1864-1920
German
Religion, politics, Music

12. I. Sociology is an Independent Science.
II. Sociology is a Social Science & not Physical Science.
III. Sociology is a Categorical & not a Normative
Discipline.
IV. Sociology is Relatively an abstract Science & not a
Concrete Science.
V. Sociology is a Generalizing & not a Particularizing or
Individualizing.
VI. Sociology is a General Science & not a Special Social
Science.
VII. Finally, Sociology is both a Rational & an Empirical
Science.

13. 1. Sociological Theory.
2. Historical Sociology.
3. Sociology of Family.
4. Sociology of Community.
5. Sociology of religion.
6. Educational Sociology.
7. Political Sociology.
8. Sociology of Law.
9. The Sociology of Economic Life.
10. Sociology of Knowledge.
11. Sociology of Terrorism.
12. Social Psychology.
13. Social Psychiatry.
14. Social Disorganization.
15. Human Ecology and Demography.