Question: Sociology

Answer: the systematic or scientific study of human social behaviour

Question: Abstract level of Sociology

Answer: Soc is concerned with demonstrating patterns of behaviour, it not only focuses on the patterns; but what they are

Question: Patterns in Sociology mean people are more or less the same. With patterns come variations, we are asking the basic question, “why do some people do x, while others do y?”

Answer: Patterns

Question: Nature

Answer: biology/genetics is the primary determinant of all human characteristics

Question: Nurture

Answer: culture/socialization/the environment are primary in the formation of human personality & behaviours *sociology is on this side of the debate