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 then, we have developed our tools and language skills to heighten our fondness for complaining about society. The word sociology (or sociologie) is derived from the Latin: socius, companion; and-ology, the study of, resulting in the study of companionship.