What were material issues that went into the making of sociology?
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1) The new form of capitalism i.e the growth of industrial revolution manufacturing involved new institutions and attitudes. Entrepreneurs were engaged in pursuit of profits, markets acted as the key instrument of productive life. Goods and services and labour became commodities whose value was determined by rational calculation . 2) Degradation of labour i.e Brought out work from the protective ream of guilds, village and family. 3) Birth of new urban world i.e Marked the overcrowded slums, grime of factories, new industrial working class, bad sanitation, new form of social interactions, etc. 4) Factory and its mechanical division of labour seen as a deliberate attempt to destroy the peasant, artisan and the local community was seen by some as liberal form of oppressing and yet potentially liberating .