The concept of the âBig Fiveâ personality traits is taken from psychology and includes five broad domains that describe personality. These five personality traits are used to understand the relationship between personality and various behaviors. These five factors are assumed to represent the basic structure behind all personality traits.
Figure 1: Auguste Comte, Father of Sociology. The term sociology was coined by French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798â1857), in 1838 from the Latin termsocius (companion, associate) and the Greek term logia (study of, speech). Comte is known as the âFather of Sociology. He first publicly used the term in his work Positive Philosophy (1896, orig.
Since the 1970s, sociology has noticeably transformed to include environmental forces in social explanations. Environmental sociology emerged as a coherent subfield of inquiry after the environmental movement of the 1960s and early 1970s. It has now solidified as a respected, interdisciplinary subject in academia.