The Themes and Methods of Welfare Sociology

Abstract

This paper discusses the following three matters.1) Welfare sociology is one of the hyphen sociologies, and is based on general sociology or theoretical sociology.2) Welfare sociology is the science of social welfare as social action by interpretation, or the science of understanding social welfare as the product of a total society by analysis.3) In Japan, welfare sociology was established as late as the beginning of the 21century.