History of Sociology
Sociology was developed as a way to study and try to understand the changes to society brought on by the Industrial
Revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the earliest sociologists thought that societies and
individuals’ roles in society could be studied using the same scientific methodologies that were used in the natural sciences, while others believed that is was impossible to predict human behavior scientifically, and still others debated the value of such predictions. Those perspectives continue to be represented within sociology today.