Relationship of Sociology with other sciences
a. With extension
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Rural Sociology |
Extension |
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It is the scientific study of the laws of the structure and development of society. |
Informal (non-formal) form of education for the rural people with a view to develop rural society on desirable lines. |
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Studies attitudes and behaviour of rural people |
Seeks to modify or change for the better, the attitudes and behaviour of village people |
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Studies the needs and interests of rural society |
Helps rural people discover their needs and problems and builds educational programs based on these needs and wants. |
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Analyses rural social relationships, or group organization and leadership in rural areas. |
Fosters and utilize village organization and leadership and favourable social processes, to achieve objectives of rural development. |
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Studies social situations and assembles social facts or rural society |
Makes use of such social data as a basis for building up its extension programs for rural areas |
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Investigates the social, cultural, political and religious problems of rural society |
Studies these problems with reference to their impact on extension work in villages. |
b. Sociology and political science
- Political sciences studies that way is which people and government gain and use of power is centralized within society.
- The forms and the nature of political organization are determined by social process. Thus, without sociological background, the study of political sciences will be incomplete.
c. Sociology and economics:
- Economics study the production distribution and consumption of resources.
- Economic factors are of interest to sociologist when they effect and social action which is most closely connect material welfare of the human beings.
d. Sociology and history:
- Sociology is concerned with the study of the historical development of the human society.
- History supplies facts which are interpreted and coordinated by the sociologist and mutual dependence upon each other.
- Thus, according to G.E Howard ” History is past sociology and sociology is present history”.
e. Sociology and anthropology:
- Sociology has to depend upon anthropology to understand the present-day social phenomena from our knowledge of the past.
f. Sociology and psychology:
- Primarily, sociology is concerned to the study of group behaviour and that psychology is the behaviour of individual in the group situation.
- Thus, psychology has to depend on sociology to understand properly human nature and behaviour.
g. Sociology and Ethics:
- It is concerned with the moral rightness and wrongness of human action.
- Ethics studies men and women individually as moral agents of the society while sociology studies men and women, and their relation collectively.
- Further the personal good for the individual must at the same time be in harmony with the general good of the society as a whole.