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Sociology

Sociology can be defined as the scientific study of the social behavior of humans . It analyzes how people interact with one another and how the institutions that have been established by the society affect their attitudes and behaviors . For the past one and a half century , sociology concentrated mainly on social structures and institutions . By concentrating on the collective aspect of human behaviors , sociology therefore dwells on all group activities that pertain to economic political , social and religious aspects . Sociologists try

to analyze areas such as bureaucracy , deviant behavior , social change , social stratification , community , family , social mobility , public opinion , and specific problems like substance addiction , crime , child abuse , and divorce (White , 2000 ,

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An individual cannot study the specific behaviors of people without evaluating the larger dimensions of the socio-cultural environment such as their technological systems of communication and transportation economic structures , family processes , stratification orders , values systems and demography- all of which structure their social lives Humans have for ages been fascinated by the process in which collective social wholes are created from separate individual activities . A sense of power and exhilaration has been felt due to their unity in numbers when they come together in a crowd

The society has often been assumed as a complex system made up of different institutions which function together as whole . The society has been treated by many sociological theories as a complex system either explicitly or implicitly . The concept of social system in sociology...