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Overview of Sociology's Nature and Goals

Sociology is the scientific study of human culture and social behavior, emerging in the early nineteenth century due to rapid social changes like industrialization. Its main goals include understanding the impact of social groups on individuals, the interaction of cultures and institutions, and the consequences of social change. The sociological perspective emphasizes that human behavior is shaped by social groups and interactions, allowing for the possibility of societal change.

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Overview of Sociology's Nature and Goals

Sociology is the scientific study of human culture and social behavior, emerging in the early nineteenth century due to rapid social changes like industrialization. Its main goals include understanding the impact of social groups on individuals, the interaction of cultures and institutions, and the consequences of social change. The sociological perspective emphasizes that human behavior is shaped by social groups and interactions, allowing for the possibility of societal change.

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Understanding Culture, Society and

Politics Quarter 1 – Module 1:The


Nature, Goals and Perspective in/of
Anthropology, Sociology and Political
Science
SOCIOLOGY AS A DISCIPLINE
Sociology is the scientific investigation of
human culture and social behavior.
Sociology is a discipline in social sciences
concerned about human society and
human social activities.
Auguste Comte, a French social scholar, is
generally known as the "Father of
Sociology" as he instituted the term
'Humanism' in 1839.
NATURE OF SOCIOLOGY
As a discipline, sociology arose early in the
nineteenth century in response to
rapid social change. Major transformations in
the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries, such as rapid industrialization
resulting in a large, anonymous workforce.
The French social thinker Auguste Comte
(1798– 1857) first coined the term
sociology to describe a new way of thinking
about societies as systems governed by
principles of organization and change.
Most agree that Émile Durkheim (1858–1917),
the French humanist, made the
biggest commitment to the development of
social science as a social scientific
discipline
GOAL’S OF SOCIOLOGY
The ultimate goal of sociology is to acquire
knowledge about society like all the other
social sciences discipline, as Samuel Koenig has
pointed out the ultimate aim of
sociology is ” to improve man’s adjustment to
life by developing objective knowledge
concerning social phenomena which can be used
to deal effectively with social
problems”.
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social group affects individual be.

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interact in different societies.

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of modernity,
postmodernity and the new globalization.
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social change in terms of general causes and
effects as well as unique historical
circumstances.
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population composition and pressures and
how population affects the environment and
development of societies.
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different policy initiatives
PERSPECTIVE OF SOCIOLOGY
The fundamental knowledge of sociology is
that human conduct is molded by the
gatherings to which individuals have a place
and by the social communication that
happens inside those gatherings. We are what
our identity is and we act the manner
in which we do in light of the fact that we end
up living in a specific culture at a
specific point in reality.
Individuals will in general acknowledge their
social world unquestioningly, as something
"regular." But the sociological perspective
empowers us to consider society to be a
brief social item, made by people and fit for
being changed by them also.
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