Course Title: Sociology

Bs-Software Engineering
Credit Hr #03
instructor: Miss Hina Rasul
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Relationship with other Social
Social Sciences

Introduction
Sociology and economics
Sociology and political science
Sociology and History
Sociology and anthropology
Sociology and statistics
Sociology, criminology and education
 Learning Outcomes
After completing this unit students will be able to learn:
• The social sciences are subjects concerned with how
humans interact with the world, and sociology is
interested in the study of society. Within the
social sciences are such disciplines as economics,
psychology, anthropology, education and many others.
Each is concerned with a piece of global human concerns.
• It is essential for us to know the interrelations between
sociology and history, economics, anthropology, political
science, psychology.
 introduction
• Sociology as social science are economics,
political science, history, anthropology, and
education.
• These are called social sciences due to having
a systematic inquiry in devising laws
throughout the human behavior.
• Sociology deals with the general process of
society hence other social sciences share
certain traits with sociology.
Differences between economic and
sociology
Sociology
• Sociology study all kind of
social relationships.
• Sociology is general social
science.
• The scope of sociology is
wider.
• Social variables are very
difficult to measure and to
quantify.
Economics
• But economics deals with
only those relationships
which are economic in
character.
• Economics is a special social
science.
• The scope of economics is
narrow.
• Economic variables can be
measured and quantified
more easily and accurately.
 Difference between sociology and
History
Sociology
• Sociology is interested in the
study of the present social
phenomena.
• Sociology is relatively young
social science.
• Sociology is an analytical
science.
• Sociology follows the
sociological approach. It
studies human events from
the sociological point of
view. i.e social relationships.
History
• History deals with the past
of man. It is silent regarding
the present.
• History is an age old social
science.
• History is a descriptive
science.
• History studies human
events in accordance with
the time order. Its approach
is historical.
 Difference between Sociology and
Political Science
Sociology
• Sociology is a science of
society.
• Society studies all kind of
societies, organised as well as
unorganised.
• Sociology studies man as social
animal.
• Sociology fellow its own
methods, in addition to the
scientific method, in its
investigation.
Political Science
• Political science is a science of
state and government.
• Political science studies only
the politically organised
societies.
• Political science studies man as
a political animal.
• Political science has its own
methods of study like the
historical method, comparative
method, statistical methods.
 Sociology and Anthropology
• Anthropology is the study of man. In this
subject we study:
 Difference between Sociology and
Anthropology
Sociology
• Sociology study the modern,
civilized and complex societies.
• Sociologist more often study parts
of a society and generally
socialize in institutions such as
family, marriage, or processes,
such as social change , social
mobility.
• Sociology makes use of
observation, interviews, social
survey, questionnaires.
Anthropology
• Anthropology concerns itself simple,
unorganized or primitive and non-
literate societies.
• Anthropologist tend to study societies
in all their aspects as whole. They
concentrate their studies in a given
cultural area.
• Anthropologists directly go and live
in the communities they study. They
make use of direct observations and
interviews.
 Difference between sociology and
Psychology
Sociology
• Sociology studies society and
social groups. It has no primary
interest in the individual, not in
his personality nor in his
individual behaviour.
• Sociology analyses social process.
• Sociology studies the groups
themselves and the larger social
structure within both individual
and group processes.
Psychology
• Social physiology analyses
mental process of man.
• Psychology concerned with the
behaviour of individual .
• Social physiology studies the
individual’s behaviour from the
viewpoint of psychology factors
involved.
 Sociology and Statistics
• according to lundberg, all phenomena can be
quantified. Statistics provides the researcher with
methods and techniques of measuring qualitative
aspects of the events also.
• In sociological studies, we collect data,
manipulate and interpret statistically.
• Hence statistics for social scientists is
responsible for promoting the cause of scientific
approach in the subject.
 Sociology, criminology and
education
• Sociology covers the areas of criminology in which
causes of crime and methods of their removal are
studies.
• With education, it has, again, a closer relationship in
the sense that education is rational method of making
people useful members of society.
• In teaching norms of culture to individuals. Education
gains an important hand in the transmission of
cultural values to the succeeding generation.
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