SOCL 3101 : Sociological Theory Exam One
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So who a person is, is designated by their biography (what has happened to them in their life), and what is going on with that person (history). Sociology was developed primarily in result to the industrial revolution, which is said to have started by james watt"s creation of the steam engine. In 1830, england was primarily a agricultural society, by a 1870 it was primarily a modern industrial society. By the latter decades of the 1800"s, germany, canada, and the united states caught up from nations of small farmers to industrial countries: auguste coate, french philosopher who first proposed social physics or sociology in 1837. Nobles had large buildings, there were no nation-states, and land was individual property. No civil authority led to bad roadways and no crime control. Things slowly began to change, with cities sprawling up around the feudal manors.
