What is the definition of sociology?
This is how the Monash Univerisity Sociology department defines it What Is Sociology? The core business of sociology is the study of the processes of social organisation and change and their consequences in human life. Sociologists look to such things as social class, gender, ethnicity, power and culture to understand and explain the differences in how people, live, think and feel. Sociologists examine how differences in the ways societies are organised both limit and make possible other features of social life. Sociologists focus on the structures, cultures and change in industrial and post-industrial societies in their global context. How have these societies come to be organised in the way they are? How have their political, legal, economic, religious and educational institutions evolved and what are the effects of differences in these institutions?
