A common sense understanding of sociology of the general population would be that is we socialise in groups with common interests, for example within a sport or career prospects. The common sense of what the population see sociology as differ from what sociology actually is as it is the study of human society as a whole and the groups that we live in. The distinction between this and other social sciences is that sociology is attempts to explain human behaviour looking at a wider scale.
Sociology focuses on many different topics such as diversity, religion, health and poverty to name a few whereas psychology, for example focuses more on the individual itself. Sociology sees the behaviour of an individual within a wider scale from which groups