Society is a collection of individuals composed of multiple groups to complete all the cooperative tasks required by individuals in society. Class is a group of people with the same or similar social status. The social status here is actually the social division of labor, that is, the main role assumed in the collaborative task.
The difference between sociology and economics;
1, different definitions
Sociology: Sociology is a discipline that systematically studies social behavior and human groups, which originated from11930s and 1940s. It is a modern discipline evolved from social philosophy. Sociology is a subject with many research methods.
There are mainly quantitative methods of scientific positivism and humanistic understanding methods. These two methods are opposite to each other and interrelated, which develop and improve a set of knowledge system about human social structure and activities, and take the use of these knowledge to seek or improve social welfare as the main goal.
Economics: Economics is a theory that studies the law of human economic activities, that is, the law of value creation, transformation and realization-the law of economic development, which is divided into political economics and scientific economics.
2. Different origins
Sociology: Sociology appeared in the19th century, which is a response to the prominent contradiction of modernity. The contradiction of modernity lies in the fact that the world is getting smaller and smaller and more integrated, while the personal world experience is getting more and more divided and dispersed. Sociologists want to know not only what brings social groups together, but also the development process of social disintegration.
So as to make a "correction" (this view is mainly held by Durkheim school in sociology, while other schools, especially Frankfurt school, do not discuss social treatment methods, because they think that the treatment schemes proposed for social diseases are often imposed on the vast majority of people with the concept of small groups, which not only cannot solve the problem, but also makes it worse).
Economics: Anthropology originated from China's early economic thoughts, such as values represented by practical application, equality represented by sharing wealth and making up for deficiencies, production relations represented by mutual benefit and unity of justice and benefit, trade represented by easy access to jobs, and industry represented by agricultural enterprises.
Although China's early economic thoughts in ancient times were scattered among different thinkers, they were more complete and systematic than Smith's The Wealth of Nations, including all the seeds of the development of human economic thoughts. From the internal logic of the development of human economics, all western economics, including Smith's The Wealth of Nations, are abstract developments of China's ancient economic thoughts.
China's early economic thought in ancient times and the later development of western economics laid a good foundation for China's economics to achieve a higher level of synthesis and build a general scientific economic system.
3. The research objects are different.
Sociology: The research objects include social stratification, social stratum, social mobility, social religion, social law, deviant behavior, etc. The model adopted includes qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Economics: The research object of economics is the essence and law of human economic activities. Social and economic development is a dynamic equilibrium process in which the subject creates value and changes from asymmetry to symmetry. The transformation of subject and object from asymmetry to symmetry, which is dominated by the activity of subject creating value, is the most fundamental driving force for social and economic development.
Therefore, the symmetrical relationship between subject and object in the process of creating, transforming and realizing value is the essence of human economic activities; The fundamental law of human economic activities is that the subject creates value and the subject and object change from asymmetry to symmetry.
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