THE EARLY SOCIOLOGISTS WANTED TO MAKE SENSE OF THE CHANGING SOCIETIES IN WHICH THEY LIVED, WHAT WERE THEIR CONCERNS?

The 19th century was a time of radical changes in many aspects of peoples lives; it was from this state of flux that the founding fathers of sociology emerged; in an effort to make sense of the modern world. So great was their insight that it is still applicable today;

The founding fathers of sociology Marx, Weber, and Durkheim all sought to discover the inner workings of society at large, what society is, what the relationship between society and the individual is, what the dominant forces on social and historical change are (Slattery,1991,78).

During the 19th century Europe was under going political, cultural, and industrial revolutions. They sought to understand why their world was changing and to influence the change in the manner they best saw fit….(short extract)