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.
By the early 1970s, the medical sociology section of the British Sociological Association had established its own organizational footprint, and in 1979 published its own âmedical sociologyâ journal (Sociology of Health & Illness).