Question

Define sociology.discuss about the emergence and growth of the discipline.

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Sociology as a scholarly discipline emerged, primarily out of Enlightenment thought, as a positivist science of society shortly after the French Revolution.The word Sociology was first used by French man Auguste Compte in 1830 when he proposed a synthetic science uniting all knowledge about human activity.

The study of human society in scientific way is said to have begun with August Comte. The emergence of sociology as a discipline of academic interest is of recent origin. Its emergence as a discipline can be attributed to the vast changes that took place in the nineteenth century.