The word sociology is a combination of two words: socius, a Latin word that means companion and a Greek word ology, which means the study of. All together, sociology is that branch of social science that studies society and social relations.
Definition:
"Sociology is the synthesizing and generalising science of man in all his social relationships." - Arnold Green
"It is a subject which deals with groups." - H.M. Johnson
"Society is a web of social relationships." - MacIver
"as the study of society, that is of the tissue or web of human interactions and inter-relations." - Prof. Ginsberg
"Sociology should be concerned not with actual societies, but with forces which knit the people together in a society." - Vierkandt
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