Sociology

Sociology is the science that deals with the study of human beings and their social relationship. NATURE OF SOCIOLOGY Sociology is a branch of social sciences. It is considered as a separate discipline. It is also known as branch of knowledge because it has own unit characters. It is different from other sciences in certain respect. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIOLOGY AND ECONOMICS

Sociology and economics are the branches of the social sciences .They have very close relationship. Economics deals with the economics activities of man which is also called science of bred and butter. Economics is the study of production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. Economics es concerned with material welfare of the human beings. Economics welfare is only a part of human welfare and it can be only sought only with the proper knowledge of social laws. It cannot go far ahead without the help of sociology and other sciences. Sociology and economics are helpful to each other. Economics relationship are closely related with social activities as same as social relationship are also effected by economic activity. Thus due to such relations, Thomas regarded economics as the branch of sociology which is known as economic sociology and is use to study economic process of the society. Some economist like Sam Bart, Max Weber, Pareto have explained economic change as aspect of social change. According to them, the study of economics would be incomplete without understanding of human society. The society, it's structure, organization, it's institution, it's strength and witness e.t.c are bound to effect economics activities of it's people. On the other hand, according to Karl Marx, the social phenomenas are determined by economic forces .And social reality or social change can be explained in terms of economic forces. According to Karl Marx, the infrastructure of society is nothing but the economic relations among it's people are something. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIOLOGY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Political science and sociology are closely related .Political science is that branch of social science which mostely deals with state,government and power.According to Morris Ginsberg ,"Historically sociology has it's main rules in politics and philosophy of history." Political science deals with the political activities of man .It deals with the principles of organization and government of human society.It studies social groups organized under the sovereignty of the state. RELATION BETWEEN SOCIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY Psychology is the science of mental process or mind.It studies particularly teh human experiences and the behaviour.Social psychology os one of the subdivisions of sociology,which is the combinations of psychology and sociology.Sociology and psychology are both involved in solvimg the exist social problems.Sociology helps psychology and psycology helps sociology.Thus,they are interelated in many respects .Besides social psychology studies individuals social behaviour.Social psychology serves the bridge between psychology and sociology.It deals with mental process of man considering him as a social bieng. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIOLOGY AND HISTORY Sociology and history are much interelated with eachother.History is the branch of the social science which deals with the records of past events.Historical sociology is the discipline which is concern with the studyu of socila phenomena,social process and so forth in the past.It is also called social history. SIMILARITIES BETWEEN SOCIOLOGY AND HISTORY Sociology is the study of society while history seeks to establish the squence in which events occurs in the past .Like historian sociologist are concerns with the relationship between events occuring more or less at the same time .In this context,history suplies the material for sociologu as well as sociology gives the social background for the study of historrry.It is further said that history would be meaningless without explaining sociallly significiant events.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIOLOGY WITH OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES

Social sciences basically study human groups,society and social environment.The social sciences such as, history,anthropology,physiology,economice,political science e.t.c studies the diferent aspects of the sociology of man.Theses social sciences are very much interelated .Sociology as a science of societyhas joined the family of social science very recently.It becomes very necessary to a student of sociology to know teh differences and the relations of the sociology with other sciences.However the study of the differences and similarities of sociology with other sciences has become very diffucult and also has been a matter of controversy. Today ,indisciplinary approach is gaining popularity in the field of social science.To understand,one social science one needs the understanding ot others.Similarly,sociology has borrowed many things from other sciences and at the same times,enrich other sciences by it's useful sociological knowledge.In this context ,it becomes assentila to know the interelation between sociologyb and history ,economics,political,anthropology ,social physcology,education e.t.c