Society consists of specific group of people who are connected among themselves by any relations, interests. It is accepted to call these relations social, and society society. These concepts were born relatively recently and laid the foundation for the whole science which studies behavior of people in terms of socialization.
Author and his idea
Society, or society as any other phenomenon needs observation and a research. For this purpose in 1832 August Comte entered the term - "sociology". Sociology, first of all, science which is engaged in consideration and studying society, its systems.
You should not consider Comte umopomeshany. His mental disorder is connected only with information volume. In 1829 he recovered from an illness and continued work.
Frenchman Comte actually was very far from the humanities. He graduated from technical college, and its interest in "mechanism" of work of society was based on identification of communications and the principles as it would be in physics or mechanics. The idea to analyze public relations so strongly captured Comte that he literally it lived, clinging to each logical and illogical chain of communications in life of groups of people. He terrorized inquiries of drunkards and readily available women. Tried to remove regularities. As a result still young Comte earned insanity and was placed in psychiatric clinic that, however, did not prevent to write it two works which formed the sociology science basis: "Course of positive philosophy" and "System of positive policy".
According to Comte, the sociology studies functioning of society: system of relationship of people, their interactions, interconditionalities and influence of any given factors on the person, group, weight. The sociology also considers regularities of various social actions and the relation between persons. The main goal of this science consists in the analysis of the being structure of the social relations. Though the term also has the specific author who gave it interpretation and for the first time introduced it into circulation, there are other its definitions and approaches to value of a concept, and therefore it is possible to find various descriptions of "society", "sociology", "sociality" in educational literature and so forth related concepts.
Sociology elements
Speaking about specifics of science, it should be noted that it consists of the directions where society is considered as an ordered system. In the second turn science the individual as a part of group interests. The individual cannot be the isolated object in a system, it expresses concrete belonging to any given social group.
Consciousness of society constantly changes therefore in sociology there is no uniform theory. Here are constantly formed a huge number of views, approaches which not seldom open the new directions of this science.
If to compare sociology, for example, to philosophy, then the first is based on reality. It shows life, human essence at the moment of reality. The second, in turn, considers society abstractly. First of all, the sociology studies public practice: as the system as it is fixed and acquired by individuals is formed. Considering structure of science, it should be noted that it is enough mnogoslozhna. There is the whole system of its classifications. Most often allocate: - theoretical sociology, - empirical, - applied. Theoretical, it is more directed to scientific research. Empirical is under construction on methodical receptions, and applied it is brought more closer to practice. The directions of sociology are also diverse. It can be gender, fiscal. There is a sociology of culture, medicine, the right, economy, work and others.