INTRODUCATION OF SOCIOLOGY || DEFINATIONS OF SOCIOLOGY || ACADEMIC HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGY

INTRODUCTION OF SOCIOLOGY

                                                                    

 

The first social scientist to use them term Sociology in 1836 was a Frenchman August Comte, who lived from 1798-1857. As coined by Comte, the term sociology is a combination of two words. The first part of the term in a Latin, socius- that may variously mean society, association, togetherness or companionship. The other word, logos, is of Greek origin. It literally means to speak about or word of society. 

Comte decided that to understand society, one had to follow certain procedures, which we know now as the scientific method. The scientific method is the use of systematic and specific procedures to test theories in psychology, the natural sciences, and other fields. Comte also believed in positivism, which is the application of scientific method to the analysis of society.  

DEFINATIONS OF SOCIOLOGY

Sociology has been defined in a number of ways by different sociologists. 

William Graham Summer:  defined it as "Sociology is the science of society."

Max Weber: "Sociology is the study of social action."

Franklin Henry Giddings: "Sociology is the science of social phenomenon."

Emile Durkheim: "Sociology is the study of social institutions and and social facts."

Talcott Parsons: "Sociology is the scientific study of the structure and functions of human groups." 

ACADEMIC HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGY 

 In the united States, Sociology was first taught as an academic discipline at the University of Kansas in 1890, at the University of Chicago in 1892, and at Atlanta America as well. 
The first Department of sociology was opened at McGill University in Montreal Canada in 1922, followed by sociology departments at Harvard university in 1930, at the University of California in 1950, the University of the 1960 at university Karachi, department of Rural sociology was established in 1963 at the university of agriculture Faisalabad. the department of sociology was established at university of Sindh, Hyderabad campus in 1964. 

Sociology was established under the umbrella of Department of Agricultural Economics in the year 1997 and in same year admission in Sociology was offered and new Department was established as Department of Sociology and Anthropology in 2004 at PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, followed by Sociology at Baha Uddin Zakariya University, Multan in 2001, the department of sociology was established in 2005 at GC university Faisalabad, in International Islamic University 2007, the department of Sociology was established in 2009 at University of Sargodha and the department of sociology was established in 2011 at Quaid-e-Azzam university Islamabad. 

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