Logan
What are some the similarities between Psychology and Sociology?
I am a freshman at City Charter High School and I have always been interested in Psychology. I was doing research during one of my career classes and I read about Sociology and was very interested after learning more about it. I am very interested in both of these fields and want to know more about both and how they can relate to one another.
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Daniela Silva
Daniela’s Answer
Hello Logan!
Sociology is a science of society. Hence it is closely related to other social sciences and so also with psychology. Sociology and Psychology are very closely interlinked interrelated and interdependent. Both depend on each other for their own comprehension. Their relationship will be clear if we analyze their inter-relationship and mutual dependency.
Sociology is a science of social phenomena and social relationship. It is a science of social group and social institutions. It is a science of collective behavior. It studies human behavior in groups. But psychology is a science of mind or mental processes. It analyses attitudes, emotions, perception, process of learning and values of individuals and process of personality formation in society.
There are many psychologists like Freud, MacDougal and others who have enrich Sociology in many respects. They opines that the whole social life could be reduced finally to psychological forces. Each and every social problems and social phenomenon must have a psychological basis for the solution of which sociology requires the help from psychology. A new branch of knowledge has developed with the combination of sociology and psychology which is known as social psychology.
Similarly, psychology depends on Sociology to comprehend itself fully. Psychology also requires help from sociology in many cases. As human mind and personality is being influenced by social environment, culture, customs and traditions hence psychology take the help from Sociology to understand this.
You can access the full article at:
http://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/sociology/the-relationship-of-sociology-with-other-social-sciences/6248/
Good Studies!
Thank you for the article it cleared up a lot of information.
Logan
Hi Daniela! Thank you so much for the amazing advice you provided to Logan above. I had a few follow up questions I wanted to ask you out of my own curiosity:
1. Do you have any personal experience studying sociology/psychology? Do they attract different types of people? And what types of professions do people in each respective major end up going into?
2. Are there any next steps one might take to help identify which of the two they better identify with?
Thank you so much in advance!
Cheers,
David
David Ohta
COACH
Daniela Silva
Daniela’s Answer
Many thanks for your feedback!!
Answering your questions:
1. Yes. Nowadays I'm studying Psychoanálisis. Besides I have specialization in Neuroeducation and I work writing articles and contents for Blogs, Magazine, Newsletter and Books.
2. In Psychoanalisis we can count with a variority of professionals that came from different graduation courses, such as Pedagogy, Phisics, Human Resources, Marketing, Engineering, Comunication, among others.
3. If you are confused about selecting a major between sociology and psychology, you are not alone. Many students have a hard time choosing between sociology and psychology. It is true that both majors are related to the study of humans, but there is one thing that makes them different from each other – psychology is about the individual, while sociology is about the society. In the psychology major, you will study the mental processes and behavior of individuals, while in sociology you will study how humans behave in a society and interact with each other.
Take a glance in this link:
http://www.excite.com/education/blog/sociology-degree-vs-psychology-degree
I´m sure that will help in your decision!
Warm Regards!