Definition of Sociology By: Showkeen Bilal Ahmad Gul, Department of Education, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P (India) According to Showkeen Bilal Ahmad Gul, “Sociology is a science that deals with how to make an ideal society and how to live an ideal social life�. Description: Sociology is concerned with man, his social relations and his society. It is the systematic study of society and of the social institutions as it studies them as they are. If is not concerned with their origin and growth. It studies society from scientific point of view. It makes a positive and secular approach to understand the working of the social institutions. Sociology is regarded as a social science which studies society as it is. It studies the group living of human beings. It takes society as an organic whole, discusses the inter-relations of the institutions mat constitute it. It studies society as a whole.