Sociology -Sociology is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior. Sociologists investigate the structure of groups, organizations, and societies, and how people interact within these contexts.

1. Sociology
By mehak nabi
For GNM ist year

2. Human being is a social
animal and need to interact
with the surrounding for
survival
Sociology is the
study of human
societies

3. Society is a group of
people whose members
interact and reside in a
definable area and share a
culture
Sociology is the study of
social life, social changes,
social cause and
consequences of human
behavior

4. MEANING
OF
SOCIOLOGY

5. Latin word
Socius -society or association
Coined by French philospher
Auguste Comte
&
Greek word
Logos-study or science
So it is science that deal with social group

6. Definitions
of
sociology

7. Sociology is the scientific study of society
-Max Weber
Sociology is the study of social actions."
_August Comte

8. Sociology is the study of social groups
on the basis of social interactions."
_Simmel
Sociology is the study of social facts of
collective behavior through social
institutions."
_Emile Durkheim

9. Sociology is the study of social aspects of
humans living together
_Mack young
Sociology is the scientific study of social
life
-ogburn and nimkoff

10. It is the study of human interactions and inter
relations, their conditions and consequences
- Morris Ginsberg
Sociology is the science that deals with
social groups, their internal forms or modes
of organization, the processes that tend to
maintain or change these forms of
organizations and relations between
groups." -H.M Johnson

11. From all definitions, it can be concluded
that Sociology is a science of society,
science of social relationships, and study
of social life, social actions, social
systems, and behavior of human beings in
groups.

12. Great
contributors of
sociology

13. Auguste comte -
French philospher and founder of sociology and
positivism. He is known as father of
SOCIOLOGY
Max Weber-
He was the first social theorist and is known as
principal architecture of modern social sciences

14. Emile Durkheim-
French sociologist who combiner the methodology of
empirical reseachnwith sociological theory . He is founder
of sociology school in France
Gobind sadashiv Ghurye-
First indian sociologist who systematically developed the
discipline of sociology in India. He isalso known as father of
Indian Sociology

15. Nature
Of
SOCIOLOG
Y

16. There are different views of
sociologists on nature of
sociology
Some sociologists consider it as
"an Art" and other consider it as
"Science"

17. Sociology as science:-
It is science because it applies scientific methods and is
governed by number of factors related to science like
. Sociology adopts scientific methods
. Sociology makes accurate observations
. Objectivity
. Sociology describes cause effect relationship
. Sociology makes accurate measurement
. Sociology makes accurate prediction
. Makes generalizations
It was supported by Auguste comte and
Emile Durkheim

18. Sociology as Art:-
It was supported by Max
Weber who does not accept
sociology as science
It is said to have art nature as it
belongs to a family of social science
because it concentrates its attention
on man, his social behavior, social
activities and social life

19. 1) It lacks objectivity
2) Lack of experimentation
3) lack of terminology

20. It lacks objectivity-It is not a
science because it cannot
maintain complete
objectivity with social
phenomenon. As complete
objectivity in the study of
human behavior is
impossible. Sociology deals
with social relationships
that cannot be studied as

21. Lack of experimentation-It
deals with human
relationships that cannot be
put under laboratory tests.
We cannot see or weigh
human relationship as it is
abstract in nature.

22. Lack of terminology-Many
terms used in socio- logy is
vague and carries different
meaning to different
persons. For example the
term caste and class has
not yet acquired the clear
meaning

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