社会学是一门与社会发展和社会生活密切相关的应用性学科,是适应现代社会发展的需要而形成和建立起来的。它关注对各种社会现象和社会问题的研究,为人们深入了解社会提供理论与方法。社会学在世界上经过近两个世纪的发展,已经形成了完备的科学体系和规范的国际学术标准。在所有发达国家中,社会学都是一个受到高度重视和得到迅速发展的专业。在我国,社会学是20世纪70年代末,伴随着我国社会的改革开放而恢复和重建的重要学科之一,也是与当前我国的经济社会发展有着密切联系的重要学科。社会学作为一级学科,包括社会学和社会工作两个本科专业。
Sociology is a discipline about social development, social life, and how people interact with each other. It provides theoretical views and methodologies to facilitiate understanding of various social phenonmena and social problems. With a history of about 200 years, sociology is a discipline of great significance and has been developing rapidly in all developed countries. In China, sociology had been imported in early 1900s, but had been banned during 1952 and 1978 due to ideological reasons. Since 1978, it regained its status and has been developing very fast under the background of reform and openness. It is a discipline that has very close relationship with soci-economic development of Chinese society. In the Department of Sociology at Shandong University, there are two undergraduate majors in this discipline: sociology and social work.