Defining Sociology

To develop our initial thoughts and understanding of Sociology, we can add a few more definitions to those cited in the Introductory chapter, mainly to demonstrate two ideas:

Firstly, that sociological study covers a relatively wide area in terms of ideas, beliefs and practices.

Secondly, if we can identify some of the features common to a range of definitions it should help us to arrive at a general, overall, definition of the subject, subject matter and practice of Sociology.

We can, begin, therefore, by looking at a range of possible definitions...

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