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What are the similarities and dissimilarity between sociology and history

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Similarities:

- They focused on Events involving humans.

For example, Sociology tends to study how a society is formed based on the culture and tradition that people held. History tends to study What action a certain group took within a specific time period

- They collected data based on the events in the past.

They need this to understand why people behave the way we do in the current time

- Both of them tend to be really subjective

The conclusion that derived from this field may varied depending on the perspective of each social group

Dissimilarities:

- History is aimed to understand the objective truth of what happen, while sociology is aimed to understand the subjective way of thinking that influence human behavior.

- History tend to focus on the events, while sociology tends to focus on the humans.

Historians will focus their attention on timeline of events that leads to significant situation/action in history. Sociology tend to focus on the human behavior that cause that event

- Sociology utilize statistics more than History does.

The Conclusion that derived in the field of sociology tend to be taken from mass collection of data that taken from a large number of subjects. History on the other hand, only relies on primary sources such as documents or ancient arts

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