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Sociology

Sociology is an academic discipline focused on understanding society. The first sociology department in a university was established by Emile Durkheim and saw the subject as a science - "the science of institutions, their genesis and their functioning." The subject has grown significantly to consider all aspects of human behaviour and human society and to encompass a very broad range of research methodology including the deliberately non-scientific.

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