Factors contributing to Sociology as a discipline
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Briefly describe the four factors which contributed to the emergence of sociology as a discipline in the nineteenth century.
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Sociology, in studying society, including economic, political and cultural systems, has origins in the common stock of human knowledge and philosophy. Social analysis has been carried out by scholars and philosophers at least as early as the time of Plato.
Sociology emerged as a scientific discipline in the early 19th century as an academic response to the challenges of modernity and modernization, such as industrialization and urbanization. Sociologists hoped not only to understand what held social groups together, but also to develop responses to social disintegration and exploitation.
Modernity is a term used to describe the condition of being related to modernism. Since the term "modern" is used to describe a wide ...
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