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Giddens defines sociology as the scientific study of the social life of human beings, human groups and societies. For another definition, sociology is the systematic and planned study of human groups and social life in modern societies. Sociology can also be defined as scientific examination and research of human societies and the human behaviors in the social groups. Thus, we can define sociology as the scientific investigation of the society, the social interaction, the relation between the individual and the society, the structures of the social institutions and their relations with each other. Sociology as a social science has its origins in the effort to understand the transformation from the traditional society to the modern society. It aims to understand the structure of and changes in the societies through scientific inquiry on contemporary human societies.