Part one of term paper
Sociology is a field which developed over a millennia ago, but it was not until the nineteenth century that it came into the fore as a bona fide social science, in need of its own classification apart from other social sciences. Sociology, “the study of the process of companionship”(pg.396, Ambercrombie,Hill,Turner), is a discipl ...

Part two of term paper
... and structures in terms of the behavior of individuals and the goals, mental states, and motives which determine the behavior of members of various social groups (pg.5,Aron).” A specialization within Sociology is social stratification. This segment of sociology attempts to deal with the structures of any given society and ones’ relationship with the institution. “Social stratification means that inequality has been hardened or institutionalized, and there is a system of social re ...