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.
SSSocFR1: Students will explain the origins of sociology and the sociological perspective, and how sociology relates to the other social sciences. a. Explain sociology, sociological perspective, and the sociological imagination. b. Describe the origins of sociology as a social science and the significance of its. historical framework. c. Explain the relationship of sociology to the other social sciences. d. Identify careers where sociological knowledge is applicable.