ABOUT SOCIOLOGY

 Sociology, the systematic study of human social relations or group life.  Other disciplines within the social sciences-including economics,  political science, anthropology, and psychology-are also concerned with  topics that fall within the scope of human society. Sociologists examine  the ways in which social structures and institutions-such as class,  family, community, and power-and social problems-such as crime and  abuse-influence society.
  Social interaction, or the responses of individuals to each other, is  perhaps the basic sociological concept, because such interaction is the  elementary component of all relationships and groups that make up human  society. Sociologists who concentrate on the details of particular  interactions as they occur in everyday life are sometimes called  microsociologists; those concerned with the larger patterns of relations  among major social sectors, such as the state and the economy, and even  with international relations, are called macrosociologists.