Sociology and Related Sciences PDF

Sociology and related sciences  Sociology and related sciences Sociology offer these things (Kathy S. Stolley) It helps to understand the social issue and.1.human behavior Sociology helps us identify what we have in.2 common within, between, cultures and.societies Sociology...

Sociology and related sciences  Sociology and related sciences Sociology offer these things (Kathy S. Stolley) It helps to understand the social issue and.1.human behavior Sociology helps us identify what we have in.2 common within, between, cultures and.societies Sociology helps us understand why and how.3.societies have been changing over time Sociology provides us theoretical.4 perspectives within which to frame this understanding and research method that.allows us to study social life sciences  Sociology as Science Sociology is the science which employs the scientific procedure to test and.retest the sociological variable to verify the knowledge The social phenomena could be organized, analyzed through the specific.methods sociology is a science to the extent that it develops a body of organized and "."verified knowledge which is based on scientific investigation Sociology applies the scientific methods to see the relationship between the individuals and sociologists tends to Their way of exploration is unlike the.natural scientists employ the systematic process of observation and classified the social.phenomena as per the nature of the social world Sociologists investigation based on the anecdotal evidences and empirical.facts, which mainly investigate the myths, folklore, legends and poverty Their exploration of knowledge is backed by certain theories. Sociological investigation primarily focuses on a group of human being and their behavior and their research depend on inanimate objects through the implication of different tools and techniques such as questionnaires, interviews, observation and.case studies Sociologists' explanation mainly divided into two camps idealists and materialists. The idealists claim that everything is created by god whereas materialists interpret as per material facts; ideas ,.and mind are products of the brain In sociology there are mainly two approaches to see the world: Positivistic approach and interpretative approach. argued that the laws of human‫ يجادل‬The positivists behavior are similar to laws of natural world positivists are Marx, Engle and August Comte. They employed the similar kind of methodology as Natural scientist follows and see the social world as physicist, chemist and biologists. Interpretativist mainly emphasize upon the actions and behavior of human being. Interpretivist see the ideas, thoughts and mind as mere social and mental construct, we cannot fully understand the world because we take our own individual view points to what is.happening  Nature of Sociology There are some special natures of sociology as other social science. It has some scientific characters and unique.methods to study.Sociology is an Independent.1.Sociology is a science not physical science.2 Sociology is a categorical not a normative.3 ‫قطعي وليست معياري‬.discipline.Sociology is a pure science not an applied science.4.Sociology is an abstract not concrete science.5 Sociology is generalized and not a particularizing or.6..individualizing science Sociology is a general social science, not a special social.7.science :Sociology is both rational and empirical science.8  Relation of Sociology with other Social Sciences :Sociology and Economics Every society is influenced by economic factors, whereas all the economic activities or process are determined by the existing social environment. Without a proper social environment, economics cannot go ahead. Economic factors play a significance role in every aspect of our life. Economic development, industrialization, production and distribution cannot be made effective.without the study of the society According to Karl Mars (founder of communism) mode of production determines social relationship, ideology and thought. Likewise, another sociologist, Maclver remarks that economic phenomena is constantly determined by all kinds of social need and activity in turn, they are constantly re-determining, creating, shaping and transforming social head and activities of.every kind  Sociology and Economics are different in the following ways Sociology Economics Economics is particular science Sociology is the general science Economics is concrete in nature - Economics considers human as Sociology is abstract in nature Economics being Sociology considers human as The scope of economics is social being comparatively narrower as it The scope of sociology is wider. is concerned only with As it is considered with all economic activities social relationship Economics is old aged science Sociology is a young science as as it has a long history its history is short Sociology studies human in Economics studies human in sociological perspective economical perspective  Sociology and Psychology It is believed that sociology and psychology are closely related as there is no meaning of sociology without psychology and.vice-versa Psychology is related to consciousness which has to depend on sociology to understand human nature and behavior in a.proper way Psychology provides the real fact regarding the matter of social structure, culture and social organizations to which.an individual belongs to develop the personality In this sense sociology must have psychological basis as it depends on exploring the human nature in social relationship. It helps the sociologist to be realistic and more objective so that they can understand the human behavior.properly  According to Maclvers Page, when through psychological point of view. A part from this, there are following dissimilarities we study the individual nature or the consequences we need to Sociology Psychology.Sociology is general science.Psychology is particular science. Sociology studies the society from.sociological point of It view Psychology studies the individual.behavior.It is analyses social process.It analyses mental process The scope of sociology is wider as it The scope of psychology is studies all aspects of human comparatively narrower as it.beings and society studies only the mental Sociology studies, social aspects Physiology organizations and institutions with studies individual as the.their social relationships.members of society The Experimental method is rarely The Experimental method is.used in sociology mostly used in.Psychology  Sociology and Anthropology Sociology and Anthropology are closely related one another than other social sciences—thus most of the universities around the.world study both subjects within the same department like Nepal.Anthropology, particularly deals with man, his works and behavior.Anthropology looks at man’s relation with groups Both sociology and anthropology studies similar subject matters like.family, kinship, marriage, caste, ethnicity, religion and race Both of these subjects discusses on the social and cultural change.over the time Sociology and anthropology both analyze the issue of living.laboratary Both of these two disciplines discusses on common theories like structural functionalism, maxims, modernism and post-.modernism.time.Both of these two subjects have similar historical backgrounds These two subjects shares common concepts, theories and methods.together Sociology primarily discuss about the social problem of the modern society, whereas anthropology discusses on the primitive and non-.western society The way of looking these two subject quite different from one.another Sociology primarily discusses on the quantitative methods, whereas.anthropology focuses on the qualitative methods Anthropologists often engaged in the ethnographic research which will take a period of time similarly sociologists engage in the survey research which can be accomplished within the short. period of time