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    Sociology is the scientific study of social relations, institutions, and society. It aims to understand why people behave the way they do and form groups through empirical observation and logic. Some key founders and perspectives in sociology include Auguste Comte, who coined the term; Herbert Spencer and Emile Durkheim, who developed functionalism; and Karl Marx, who focused on class struggle. Sociology studies social structures, cultures, and institutions using methods aimed at developing objective knowledge.

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    An Introduction Of Sociology
    *) The first scholar use the word ‘sociology’ is Auguste Comte and
    he is known as the father of sociology.

    *) Herbert Spencer and Emile Durkheim are the founders of


    functionalist perspective.

    *) Social structure refers to the pattern of inter relation between


    individuals.

    *) Characteristic of science, it is empirical.

    *) Culture refers to symbols , signs and language , besides religion


    rituals , beliefs and artifacts .Culture is guiding force in everyday
    life.

    *) Two main descriptive perspectives in sociology.

    (i) Positivism (ii) Phenomenology

    *) Sociology is the scientific study of social relations institutions


    and society.

    *) Science refers to the objective methods of investigation,


    reasoning and logic to develop a body of knowledge about given
    phenomena.

    *) A social institution is a procedure, practice and an instrument.

    *) Karl Marx focused on struggle between the bourgeoisie and


    proletariant.

    *) Sociology is a scientific discipline.

    *) Sociology is quite simply, a way of studying people. Sociologists


    want to to know why people behave way they do, why they form
    groups, why they go to war, why they worship, marry, vote all such
    things that happens when people interact with one another. Thus
    sociology can be defined as the scientific study of social relations,
    institutions & society.

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