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| | Wikinfo | Sociology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Sociologists hoped not only to understand what held social groups together, but also to develop an "antidote" to social disintegration. |
 | | Today sociologists research macro-structures that organize society, such as race or ethnicity, class and gender, and institutions such as the family; social processes that represent deviation from, or the breakdown of, these structures, including crime and divorce; and micro-processes such as interpersonal interactions and the socialisation of individuals. |
 | | Sociologists often rely on quantitative methods of social research to describe large patterns in social relationships, and in order to develop models that can help predict social change and how people will respond to social change. |
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