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( Sociology)
Portal · History The goals of sociology are to understand social action and behavior, to generalize about the causes of both of them, to predict future social action, and to understand how society influences people. The field of sociology is adopted in the examination of the patterns of social relations, social stratification, social interaction, and culture[2]. Sociology is usually considered as a branch of social sciences. However, to distinguish it from others is not straight forward. The common example is when Émile Durkheim proposed suicide as a social and not a purely individual phenomenon by demonstrating its relations with social trends and “economic patterns”. By that time, it was a common belief that suicide is a very personal matter which should not be related with any social factors. After Durkheim, people started to investigate further the relations between individuals and society and that probably is the core foundation of sociology. Therefore, examples such as social class (the distribution of power and wealth in a society), gender(the power relations between sex), education(the process of socialization), work(industrial relations) all became interesting topics for “sociologists”. Areas studied in sociology range from the analysis of brief social contacts between anonymous individuals on the street to the study of global social interaction to understand why people do what they do. To do this, sociologists examine the ‘social location’ of individuals and groups such as employment, gender, ethnicity, income, education, and class.
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