Although sociology, as a subject of study, overarches all disciplines in social sciences yet it maintains its distinctiveness. Comment. (Answer in 150 words)

- Although sociology, as a subject of study, overarches all disciplines in social sciences yet it maintains its distinctiveness. Comment. (Answer in 150 words)
Introduction
The claim is two-sided and both sides hold, but in different registers.

Body

1. The sense in which it overarches: No province of social life is closed to it: economy, polity, law and religion become sociological objects once read as systems of social relations. Comte placed sociology at the apex of his hierarchy of sciences.
2. What keeps it distinct: Its object and its method. Durkheim's Rules made the social fact — external, constraining, general — a reality explained by another social fact and not by psychology, and Suicide proved it on the most private act available. Mills added the standpoint joining private troubles to public issues.
3. A verdict on both halves: Both hold, unequally. Sociology overarches in subject matter but not in territory: economists and historians study the same institutions with better-fitted tools. Its distinctiveness is of perspective — relational, holistic, comparative — and breadth without that standpoint would leave it residual.

Conclusion
Its claim rests not on owning a subject but on a way of seeing any subject.