What is Sociology?
The word sociology comes from a combination of the Latin socius (meaning ‘companion’) and the Greek l ogo s (meaning ‘the study of’), so the word literally means the study of companionship, or social relations . Sociologists are primarily interested in all that happens to people in terms of their relationships with others. These may be: personal relationships with people we know well, such as family members, friends and people we know at work or college impersonal relationships , such as those we have with people who serve us in shops, take away our rubbish or drive the taxi we are in indirect relations with people we neither know nor see, but whose actions influence our lives. For example, a decision by corporate executives in the United States to shut down an overseas plant can affect the working and domestic lives of thousands of people who live nowhere near the USA. Presidential race in the USA??? SO , the scope of sociology may be very wide. From schools and fami...