Psychosociology or psycho-sociology is the study of problems common to

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

and

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

, particularly the way individual behavior is influenced by the groups the person belongs to. For example, in the study of

criminals In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a State (polity), state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definit ...

, ''psychology'' studies the personality of the criminal shaped by the criminal's upbringing. ''Sociology'' studies the behavior of the entire group itself: the methods the criminal group uses to recruits members and the way the group changes over time. ''Psychosociology'' studies the criminal's behavior, which is created by the group they belong to, such as the young people living in the same neighborhood block. There are many social factors that can affect the psychology of others. An example of this is social

cliques A clique ( AusE, CanE, or ), in the social sciences, is a group of individuals who interact with one another and share similar interests. Interacting with cliques is part of normative social development regardless of gender, ethnicity, or popular ...

. Whether one gets accepted into their desired clique or not, it changes the way they think of themselves, and the people around them. Friendships at young ages while growing up also have much to do with not only psychological development, but

social skills A social skill is any competence facilitating interaction and communication with others where social rules and relations are created, communicated, and changed in verbal and nonverbal ways. The process of learning these skills is called social ...

and

social behavior Social behavior is behavior among two or more organisms within the same species, and encompasses any behavior in which one member affects the other. This is due to an interaction among those members. Social behavior can be seen as similar to an ...

as well. The same goes for common laws in society. Whether an individual's group decides to obey by them or not, it affects that individual's outlook on the law and their group as a whole. The way people may act or speak dictates the way others see them in a society. For example, individuals can see authority in many different ways depending on their experiences and what others have told them. Because of this, based on people's social knowledge of authority, their opinions and ideas are very different. Every individual has their own unique and personal psychological thought process in which they use to analyze the world around them. People internalize and process sociological factors in ways relative to their psychological thought process. This relationship is reciprocated with one another as society can alter and morph the ways that people think while at the same time, society can be influenced by the externalized psychological thinking of the individuals within the society itself.{{Cite journal, last=Bandura, first=Albert, date=2001-08-01, title=Social Cognitive Theory of Mass Communication, journal=Media Psychology, volume=3, issue=3, pages=265–299, doi=10.1207/S1532785XMEP0303_03, issn=1521-3269, citeseerx=10.1.1.200.9808 Due to this, one could see how psychology is instrumental in helping the sociologist to view the wide spread effects of social facts within an individuals behavior.

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Interdisciplinary branches of psychology Interdisciplinary subfields of sociology