Social Sciences

* I believe sociology could help resolve some of society’s issues. It could help a lot all around when you think about it. If you know why or how, then you can help figure out how to stop it. If you know why the children are starting to do drugs or have sex at an earlier age you can nip it in the bud and try to prevent it. Or at least let it be known how to try and prevent it. Let the facts be known. If you have done all of this studying to help others why not apply it to the people to help them in their daily lives. I think the knowledge they have acquired through their studies could also help social workers, police officer, school counselors and many more people that deal with society’s everyday people. I believe without thorough studies we cannot solve societal issues we need the view of somebody who spends a large amount of time studying the scenarios help. They look at the big picture whereas we just look at what we can see in front of us. If they can view and study what is going on in society we can try to take their advice from their research and apply it to our society. Which of the social sciences strikes you as closest to sociology? Why?
The social science that seems to be the closest to sociology would have to be psychology. I believe this because psychology and sociology study people. It has a lot to do with studying people and their behaviors. Sociology also studies peoples behaviors but in social situations, so that is a similarity. * Sociologists and political scientists both study political behavior. Is this simply duplication of effort, or do sociologists, with their characteristic perspectives, have the ability to develop insights that might not occur to their fellow social scientists?
I believe that sociologists focus on a different aspect than political scientists. They have more insight into the characteristic aspects of the situations, compared to political scientists. However, I believe there is a slight duplication of effort, it is