Rural sociology learns about a number of things that are considered actual in rural development such as the diffusion process of agricultural technology, agrarian structures and farmers' needs.

Among the contents of this book, learn about the definition of sociology which means knowledge or knowledge about the nature, behavior and development of society. Sociology can also mean the knowledge of social structure, social processes and changes. Sociology is a social science whose object is society.

Etymologically, sociology comes from the word socius (Latin: friend) and logos (Greek: words, words, speech). So literally, sociology is talking about, discussing social friends.

The term "sociology" was first used by Auguste Comte in 1839, a French national philosopher. Auguste Comte is the person who first used the term as a special bookkeeper to study society. In addition, he also made important contributions to sociology. Therefore the experts agreed to call it the 'Father of Sociology'. Why? It must be admitted that Auguste Comte was very instrumental in sociology.

Pitirim A. Sorokin explained that Sociology is a science that studies things such as: Relationships and mutual influence between various kinds of social phenomena. For example between economic symptoms with religion, family with morality, law with the economy, and the movement of society with politics. The relationship and reciprocal influence between social symptoms and non-social symptoms. For example geographical symptoms and biological symptoms. General characteristics of all types of social symptoms.

Sociology is a science about society. Society is a group of individuals who have a relationship, have a common interest, and have a culture. Sociology studies society, people's behavior, and human social behavior by observing the behavior of the groups they construct. Groups include families, tribes, nations, countries, and various political, economic and social organizations.

Sociology as a science was born later compared to natural science. Sociology is part of human sciences, such as psychology, history, anthropology, politics, and economics. The specialty of sociology is to study the behavior of human society which is related to the social structure and culture that it has and is supported together.