Sociology : Definition & Explanation | Episteme passion

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In this article, we will talk about the Sociology term or the science of studying humans in groups meaning and definition, in addition to knowing most brilliant scientists opinions, since we listen every day to social news and often navigate on social media platforms on laptops and smartphones.


First, you must know that psychology and Sociology are similar sciences, they both study human beings. But, form different angles, and to make it easy for you to understand, here are their definitions :



Psychology: the scientific study of the psychic facts of a single human being



Sociology: the scientific study of social facts in a human group

The sociology

 is a science that studies human-beings behaviors classified as a result of their co-existence in groups or societies, they are also aware of their social realities.
 Social groups, multi-organizations or institutions with more than 3 people.

It is as well the science which studies the social life of humans and the sharing with other sciences, the concern to fix the scientific laws of facts from experimental exercises namely:

          • Observation of the reaction needs to be explained by the human champion following qualitative and quantitative methods;

          • The sociology adopted for the processes that have unfolded around processes of process, the process of treatment to be able to push back in the form of schemas and tables or area of ​​this research

         • The social, political, economic, cultural occurrence

in fact, she develops her research statistically following the variables:

         • age, sex, occupational class, and social status

Among the topics addressed by sociology are:

- family relations (family);
- Education;
- religion;
- organizations;
- State and powers;
- ideologies;
- cultural practices;

we must keep in mind  that society transforms itself continuously  into an age of the evolution and transformation that we know of Western Europe in many fields:

- Biology;

- Physics;

- Natural Sciences

J.B.de la Mark had developed a theory in biology about transformism one of the bases of evolution but the most decisive step about this visionary theory in evolution that of Charles Darwin in his work published in 1958 : the origin of species; where he shows the mechanisms of natural selection and the transformation of living species by changes in their genetic, morphological characteristics which calls it "the progeny with modification"..

But he didn't actually prove anything, because as current scientific proved: something is missing in his explanation, and others say he did not talk at all about species evolution, he only talked about species development, depending on many factors such as time and weather , it is  a normal thing called adaptation, just like what we did as humans... 



Galileo:  a physicist astronomer remains the scientist known since 1610 he observes spots on the sun and the character of the moon and a multitude around Jupiter he confirms the theory of Nicolas Copernicus according to the sun and the earth turn around this last system as Centric Helio. In the natural sciences, it is possible to predict the astrological phenomena with more precision than we know the fields of experimental scientific research. social Sciences. 
These are some aspects of analysis to explain some transformations in scientific fields.



The first problem that sociology must answer is that of finding the equation of being able to understand Man with the pretension of grasping truths and laws by proposing to interfere or to join the natural sciences under the formula ( the science of social nature) by specifying that the natural sciences are only a foretaste or introduction to introduce the social sciences. Thus Auguste counts the founder of the sociology of the sociological appellation defined the theme of sociology as the most complex among the topics addressed by the human sciences and remains at the top of the positive sciences.

Auguste specifies that the individual, in itself, is not considered as a social element and that it is thanks to its social efficiency that it is in the group and in average work. The division of labor is the social value of being, it can not be achieved in a healthy way, which is within the family as the essential social unit of society.


The interactive appearances of structures in social life that oppose spontaneously and ensure the continuity of human societies.


Auguste Compte proposes a physiological method to understand and analyze this social interactivity by two methods namely the static aspect and the dynamic aspect.
The static aspect is the study in its stable and apparent state that calls it (the order)


The dynamic aspect: is the one which concerns the study of the moving society and its continuous progression while starting from the analysis of the principle of progress, otherwise, it follows from these two concepts that the progress is realized only by the order and vice -which makes order fit the structure and progress is a logical continuation of change.