What is Sociology

What is sociology? Briefly, trace its development, commenting on early sociologists’
ambition for a scientific study of society.



Sociology is “the attempt to understand how society works. It studies the relationship between people, how those relationships form part of broader sets of relationships between social groupings, and how such groupings and institutions are related to the under society…”
(BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION)

Sociology demonstrates the need to take a much broader view of why we are as we are and how we act. There are and have been a diversity of approaches to the development of social thinking and there has never been a discipline in which there is a body of ideas that all accept are valid. It is about our own lives, our own behaviour and is therefore complex and difficult to study. The practice of Sociolog...