Definition of maintenance for Students. 1  1 : the act of keeping or providing for : the state of being kept or provided for One of government's jobs is the maintenance of law and order. 2  2 : upkeep Workers in charge of maintenance painted the building.
SOCIOLOGY is: 1  the study of society. 2  a social science involving the study of the social lives of people, groups, and societies. 3  the study of our behavior as social beings, covering everything from the analysis of short contacts between anonymous individuals on the street to the study of global social processes.
These questions are hugely important to life as a human being, and they are studied by the field of sociology. A general definition of sociology is the systematic study of human society, culture, and relationships on a group level.ne way to think about sociology is to contrast it with different, but similar fields. For example, social psychology asks many of the same questions as sociology but uses different research methodology and studies people on an individual level instead of the group level.