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What Is Sociology?

The definitions at which you've just looked (unless, of course, you've just jumped to this Summary page because you can't be dealing with loads of descriptive text) are useful for a couple of reasons:

Firstly - and perhaps most obviously - they tell us something about the subject matter of Sociology.

Secondly, however, the fact we can identify different definitions by different writers tells us something interesting and important about the subject itself.

Now you've had a look at an extended range of thoughts and definitions, you might like to think about how you think Sociology should be defined...