SOCIOLOGY # 4

Sociology & other Social Sciences

Different social sciences deals with different aspects of social life of man.

Accordingly, History, Anthropology, Psychology, Economics & Political Science,

these social sciences are interrelated.

It is essentials for the student of sociology to know in what respect his subject
differs from other social sciences and what ways it is related to them.

Some social thinkers says that sociology is the basic and sole social science and
ithers are its divisions.

It is essential for us to know the interrelations between sociology and history,

economics, anthropology, political science, psychology.
 The word anthropology derived from
two Greeks words, Anthropos
meaning man and logs mean study.
“Thus, anthropology is the study of
man”
ANTHROPO
LOGY “The science of man and his works
and behavior”
In number of universities anthropology
and sociology are administratively
organized into one department.
 Difference between Sociology & Anthropology
SOCIOLOGY
• sociology is the study of modern
civilizes and complex societies.
• Sociologist study the institutions
marriage, family or processes such as
change, social mobility.
• Sociologist studies small as well as
large societies.
• Sociology makes use of observation,
interview, social survey, questionnaires
and other method of techniques in its
investigations.
ANTHROPOLOGY
• Anthropology concerns with
uncivilized or primitive and non
literate societies.
• Anthropologist study human
primitive cultures.
• Anthropologists usually concentrate
on small societies.
• Anthropologists directly go and live
in the communities they study. They
make use of direct observations and
interviews.
 • History is a study of past, which people
have already lived. Data for historian
come in the form records from museums,
libraries and personal collection of
people.
HISTORY • History is the reconstruction of man’s
past. It is study of the experience of man
kind. It is a record of the human past.
• Historian are interested in what
happened at a particular time in the past.
• Historian are only concentrate on the
past.
 Sociology as science of society on the
other hand is interested in the present.
It studies various stages of human life.
Sociology has thus to depend upon
the history for its materials. E.g.
SOCIOLOGY
If he wants to study of marriage and
family he must study their historical
development also. Similarly he wants
to know the impact of Islamic culture
on the Hindu culture.
 Difference between Sociology & History

SOCIOLOGY
• Sociology is interested in the study of
present with all their complexity.
• Sociology is relatively young social
science. It has very short history of its
own.
• Sociology is an analytical science.
• Sociology is generalized science.
HISTORY
• History deals with the past events of
man. It is silent regarding the present.
• History is an age-old social science. It
has a long story of 200 years or even
more.
• History is descriptive science.
• History is an individualizing science.
 • Political science deals with political activities of
man.
• Political science has its own topics such as origin,
evolution and functions of state, the forms of
Government, types of constitutions, administration
law, legislation, elections, voting, political
movements.
POLITICAL • Political science is concerned with state. There are
SCIENCE some common topics of interest for both
sociologist and political scientists. Such as war,
mass movements, government control, public
opinion, propaganda, leadership, elections, voting.
• Further many social problems are also deep
political problems(clashes of Muslims and
Christians, Hindus and Muslims, Asian and
Europeans).
 Difference between Sociology & political science
SOCIOLOGY
• Sociology is a science of society
• Sociology studies all kind of societies
organized as un organized
• Sociology has a wider scope
• Sociology studies man as fundamentally a
social animal
• The approach of sociology is sociological. It
follows its own methods in addition to the
scientific methods in its investigations.
• Finally sociology is quite young. It is not even
two countries old.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
• political science is a science of state and
government
• Political science studies only the politically
organized societies
• Political science has narrower field
• Political science studies man as a political
animal
• Political science is a special social science
because it concentrates only on the human
relationships which are political in character
• Political science is an older science
comparatively it has centuries of history
 Difference between Sociology & psychology
SOCIOLOGY
• Sociology studies society and social
groups
• Sociology analysis social processes
• Sociology studies society form
sociological point of view
PSYCHOLOGY
• Psychology studies behavior of
individual in society. It focus of
interest is individual and not the
society as such
• Psychology concerned with behavior
of individuals
• Psychology studies individual's
behavior from the point view point of
psychological factors involved
 Economics deals with the economic activities of man.
“economics studies the aspects of production,
distribution and exchange and consumption in
ECONOMICS society”
it studies the structure and function of economic
organization like banks, factories, markets,
business, firms, corporations, transport.
 Difference between Sociology & economics
SOCIOLOGY
• Sociology studies all kind of social
relationships
• Sociology is general social science
• Sociology is a science of recent
emergence
ECONOMICS
• Economics deals with only those social
relationships which are economics in
character
• Economics is a special; science
• Economics has attained an advanced
degree of maturity
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