Sociology

SOCIOLOGY is:

• the study of society
• a social science involving the study of the social lives of people, groups, and societies
• the study of our behavior as social beings, covering everything from the analysis of short contacts between anonymous individuals on the street to the study of global social processes
• the scientific study of social aggregations, the entities through which humans move throughout their lives'
• an overarching unification of all studies of humankind, including history, psychology, and economics
  American Sociological Association