Sub - divisions or Branches of Sociology
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Sociology is fast growing and popular discipline. Sociologists are at work to bring into its range of study almost all aspects of man's social life. Sociology has a tendency to break down into an endless list of specialties. Thus it has several specialized areas of inquiry each of which may employ its own approach and techniques. So that sociology have its sub-divisions or branches and they are as follows:-
- Historical Sociology :- Historical is the one of the branches of sociology. In a sense that all sociological research is historical for the sociologists normally go into the records pertaining to the events that have happened or have been observed. ' Social history is history which deals with human relations, social patterns, mores and customs and important institutions other than monarchy and army'.
- Sociology of Knowledge :- Sociology of knowledge is also the branches of sociology. This branch is pre-supposes the idea " that our knowledge is in some measure a social product". In the book "New Science" (1725) Vice tried to show how heroic literature constituted the thought mode of a specific kind of society. " According to Marx and Engles, all knowledge has been distorted, directed and conditioned by the intrested conscious and unconscious, of conflicting exploited and exploiting classes".
- Political Sociology :- In the time of Aristotle the thinkers have been making systematic study of concrete political phenomena. They have been observing how political phenomena influences and get influences by the rest of the social structure and culture. As Semelser N.J. says , " Political sociology can be defined as the study of the interrelationship between society and polity, between social structures and political institutions".
- Social or Human Ecology :- Ecology is a branch of biology and has largely concerned with the environment of the lower animals and plants. It refers to the influence of the environment upon human ecology. A community, from the ecological point of view, includes a focal area plus the surrounding territory . Its size is determined by the extent of its economic and social influence. This ecological conception is used by the sociologists in their study of the community.
- Rural Sociology :- Rural sociology is a specialised field of sociology. It deals with the society of village or rural society. It is a systematic and scientific study of rural society. " Rural sociology is the sociology of rural life in rural environment" by Sanderson. " Rural sociology is that study human relationships in rural environment" by Bertand. It provides us that knowledge about the rural social phenomena which can help us in making contribution to the development of rural society.
- Military of Sociology
- Folk Sociology
- Urban Sociology
- Sociology of Arts
- Sociology of Sexual behaviour
- Sociology of Culture
- Sociology of Action
- Industrial Sociology
- Economic Sociology or The Sociology of Economic Life
- Sociology of Mass Society
- Sociology of Methodology
- Sociology of Social Structure
- Sociology of Theory
- Sociology of Psychology, etc
Thus, sociology have many branches on the study of the society. Sociology has already made intensive studies in fields like social stratification, mass media of communication, public opinion and bureaucracy. The horizons of sociology are expanding gradually. Its scope is becoming wider to encompass all the realms of man's social life.
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