Sociology Research Method

Sociology is the scientific study of human social behavior. As the study of humans in their collective aspect, sociology is concerned with all group activities: economic, social, political, and religious. Sociologists are the researchers of sociology. Sociologist study such areas as bureaucracy, community, deviant behavior, family, public opinion, social change, social mobility, social stratification, and such specific problems as crime, divorce, child abuse, and substance addiction. Sociology tries to determine the laws governing human behavior …

…person in to one specific group or another. Many variables affect human behavior , so to try and do this would be a waste of time, there are just too many variables. Another problem is that you cannot predict individual behavior. You can only predict the probability of ones behavior unless individual psycho-analysis is done on every single person. I hope you now have a better understanding as to how the sociological research method is used.