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Sociology

This resource guide supports students and faculty in the Sociology discipline.

SOCIOLOGY is:

  • the study of society
  • a social science involving the study of the social lives of people, groups, and societies
  • the study of our behavior as social beings, covering everything from the analysis of short contacts between anonymous individuals on the street to the study of global social processes
  • the scientific study of social aggregations, the entities through which humans move throughout their lives'
  • an overarching unification of all studies of humankind, including history, psychology, and economics

American Sociology Association http://www.asanet.org/about-asa/asa-story/what-sociology

 

For comments or questions, contact Alison at alison.turner@usd.edu.

This LibGuide is adapted from the work of Alan Aldrich.

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