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.
NPTEL â Humanities and Social Sciences â Introduction to Sociology. Joint initiative of IITs and IISc â Funded by MHRD Page 1 of 7. Lecture 1: Origin of Sociology as a Discipline. Sociology is the study of human social life. Because human social life is so expansive, sociology has many sub-sections of study, ranging from the analysis of conversations. to the development of theories to try to understand how the entire world works.