It will limit our ability to understand other societies, and even what is happening in our own multi-cultural society Consciously try to keep an open mind. Only in this way can we understand other societies' family systems. Only in this way can we understand what is happening to the family in our own society. All are valid and interesting. We will study the family from a sociological perspective.
Sociology is a social science that strives to understand human behavior.
How can we distinguish it from history, psychology and the other social sciences that also attempt to understand human behavior. Sociology's subject matter is patterns of behavior , not individual acts. By making it part of a pattern of behavior . Frank's act is added to the statistics on suicide at Fairfield University, and youth suicide nationwide. I as a sociologist am very curious as to why young people take their own lives at the rate that they do.