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dc.contributor.authorCostello, Michael A.
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-23T01:56:09Z
dc.date.available2023-02-23T01:56:09Z
dc.date.issued1978
dc.identifier.citationCostello, M. A. (1978). Sociology and Theology - never the twain shall meet?. Southeast Asia Journal, 10(2), 22-27.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0038-3600
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12852/2489
dc.descriptionJournal articleen_US
dc.description.abstractPerhaps I could start by saying a few words about the discipline of sociology—about what it is and what it is not. Sociology, as one of the social sciences, is concerned with studying and explaining human behavior. It tends to focus, in particular, upon groups or aggregates of people rather than upon individuals. If a sociologist wanted to explain why country X has a high birth rate, for example, he might frame his explanation in terms of such concepts as cultural expectations about marriage and childbearing, the family as a social institution, the role and status of women in that country or religious norms about childbearing and contraceptive use. The important point for our purposes here is that sociology is basically concerned with explaining human behavior not with changing it or improving it. In other words, sociology should not be confused with social work or social action programs. Social work appears to trace its origins back to Jewish and Christian teachings but sociology emanates from a somewhat different tradition.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCentral Philippine Universityen_US
dc.subject.lcshSociologyen_US
dc.subject.lcshTheologyen_US
dc.titleSociology and Theology - never the twain shall meet?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dcterms.accessRightsPublicly accessibleen_US
dc.citation.firstpage22en_US
dc.citation.lastpage27en_US
dc.citation.journaltitleSoutheast Asia Journalen_US
dc.citation.volume10en_US
dc.citation.issue2en_US


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