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Jovita Kaur, Lovely Professional University Unit 3: Social Science Discipline: Sociology and History

Unit 3: Social Science Discipline: Sociology and History Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives

Introduction
3.1 Scope of Major Subjects

3.2 Sociology
3.2.1 Sociology as a Study of Social Facts

3.2.2 Social Facts

3.3 History
3.4 Summary
3.5 Keywords

3.6 Review Questions

3.7 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
y Know the nature of sociology and history disciplines
y Discuss the scope of sociology and history.

Introduction

In the previous unit we studied about the nature and scope of social science and the scope of some
major subjects such as economics and political science. The unit also discussed about the contribution
made by prominent authors in these fields.
In the present unit we will study some more disciplines of social science like sociology and history.
Fallout from the debate over the character of economics was the emergence of the first department
of sociology in the world, in the new University of Chicago. Chicago had institutionalized de nova,
with separate departments in the social sciences. Political economy was the largest. It was led by
I. Lawrence Laughlin and included Veblen. History, led by I. Franklin Jameson and German-born
Von Holtz, was next.

3.1 Scope of Major Subjects
In the present unit we will study the key sociology and history disciplines of social science. The given
below is the brief view of these disciplines:

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