Trait-based personality theories, such as those defined by Raymond Cattell define personality as the traits that predict a person's behavior. On the other hand, more behaviorally based approaches define personality through learning and habits.
This was one year after the first department of sociology was established at the University of Chicago. In 1919, a separate School of Sociology was created, and in 1930, the present Department of Sociology came into being. Following World War II, the department, along with the university as a whole, expanded rapidly. Before World War II the department had a masterâs program from which a handful of students had graduated.
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.