What is Sociology?

I see sociology as a big tree. At the trunk of it is the basic human instinct to understand how our world works. From this trunk of basic sociology comes the different types of sociology; structural, interactional, qualitative and quantitative. These different types of sociology work together to justify human behavior. From these come the social science branches. These branches include history, political science, economics and anthropology. Many of these branches connect with eachother as well. Each of these branches has a different view of the world from where it is on the tree; consequently theses different social sciences interpret and explain situations differently from eachtother. Because we as humans cannot fully prove many sociological findings, the combination of different types of sociology and social sciences is crucial. Having different perspectives on a situation can give us a much better understanding and open our eyes to things we may not have considered before. The example that the article gives us explains different ways that different social scientists would perceive teen deliquency. In my opinion, in order to understand it, we must take a little bit of truth from each of the perspectives.