ABSTRACT
Sociologists are making a special contribution to current thinking on such questions as education and social mobility, changing social relations in industry and politics, adaptations within the family, and procedures for the social control of delinquency. Sociology can be briefly defined as the study of the interacting groups of which all societies are composed. In sociology and other related social sciences, by far the most generally used method consists of questioning a sample of individuals to find out facts about them and their experiences, to ascertain what they know and what they feel. The stage of analysis also raises some typical problems for empirical sociology. Sociology started as a thinly disguised form of social philosophy. For the historian of sociology, these classical writers are still of first importance. They created the groundwork of social philosophy and speculation on which the modern discipline of sociology is founded.
