This course aims at sharpening the reason. It has to equip the student with a critical mind: to allow him/her to be a clear-thinking, to have an analytical mind/to be analytical. This by teaching him/her the ideas of philosophers while demonstrating their relation with our everyday’s life.

- Teacher: MWIZERE Jean Eudes
Sociology is the scientific study of society, including patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture. The term sociology was first used by French man Auguste Comte in the 1830s when he proposed a synthetic science uniting all knowledge about human activity.
Assignment
1.Explain the contribution of Karl Marx to the construction of Sociology.

- Teacher: Emmanuel NDAGIJIMANA
Rural sociology is the study of social organization and social processes that are characteristic of geographical localities where population size is relatively small and density is low (Warner 1974). Thus, rural sociology can be defined as the sociology of rural society.
