Explain main features of sociology

Sociology: a Generalising Science: Sociology is a generalising sciences and not a particularising science. It aims to establish general laws of principles about interactions and associations. It seeks to find general principles about the nature, form, content and structure of human groups and societies. Like history, it does not attempt to make a description of particular events or particular societies. Sociology: a Generalised Science: Sociology is a general science. It is not a specialised science like history, political science and economics. These social sciences have specialised subject matters and these are all parts of one general subject matter: Man’s social behaviour, which sociology studies. Only certain kinds of behaviour engage their attention. The economist, for example, is interested in one kind of behaviour, economic behaviour. The political scientist likewise is concerned with political behaviour. In contrast to these specialised sciences, the generalised sciences of sociology, psychology, and anthropology recognise no such limitations of scope of interest. One may readily speak of noneconomic or nonpolitical behaviour. But it simply makes no sense to speak of non-psychological or non-sociological or non-anthropological behaviour. All behaviour has psychological, sociological and anthropological dimensions and the scientists in any one of these fields must necessarily take all kinds of behaviour into account