role of sociology in psychology

[sakura]

As a student of psychology, why we study sociology? 

I recently started my university life and my major is psychology..so it would be better if someone could elaborate it..

 

[iNow]

How better to understand the individual mind than by setting context around what happens when many minds come together and interact?

[dimreepr]

1 hour ago, sakura said:

As a student of psychology, why we study sociology? 

I recently started my university life and my major is psychology..so it would be better if someone could elaborate it..

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that's for you to find out in your studies, no shortcuts.

[lucy brighton]

Psychology is the study of how the mind works and what goes on in a person's head. To me, psychology is a personal study offering insight into the human mind as an individual entity. Whereas, Sociology is a study of how we think as a society. It dwells into human relationships, community living etc. Since society is a collection of human minds, I can totally see how sociology  is related to psychology.