Srushti Jayant DeshmukhAIR 5 · CSE 2018 · 154 wordsTheir whole copy
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All intellectual fields and disciplines are profoundly rooted in their social setting. Similarly, the rise of SOCIOLOGY as a separate discipline was not merely a coincidence
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© Immediate Impact of Political & Social Revolution like French Revolution creates chaos & uncertainty and study of society was envisaged for finding bases for order Eg. by Comte, Durkheim
© Scientific development, theory of Social darwinism by Herbert Spencer, Industrial Revolution etc opened up new economic challenges like Capitalism,
Control over labour etc and social challenges like poor living conditions in urban areas, et emergence of working & middle class. Hence theorists like Weber, Marx etc tried to theorise stratification in society or the Economic disruption.
Commercial Revolution also created conducive conditions for trade and society experiences Enlightenment, Renaissance, Rationality & Reason as ideals. Hence rise of
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Hence, rise of sociology was firmly rooted in challenges of modernity that provided Intellectual & Social context to its rise.