Behavioral Sociology

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The behavior theoretical sociology is under the influence of behaviorism , an approach the (social) psychology , of the organism man as Blackbox considered. Only the relationship between input and output ( quantitative social research ) is examined . Sociological research into social behavior also takes into account knowledge of human ethology , which explains human behavior from the evolutionary history of individual habits . Within anthropology , to which ethnology is also included in Anglophone countries , this approach has become fashionable again in recent years because it tries to merge human and animal behavior into a common sociobiology .

The opposite term to " social behavior " is social action , see also action theory .

A behavioral theoretical research direction to the tradition of Max Weber cites, is the managerialism that the lock function of certain decision-makers in the system city studied.