Who invented sociology?
Sociology, including economic, political, and cultural systems, has origins in the common stock of human knowledge and philosophy. Social analysis has been carried out by scholars and philosophers at least as early as the time of Plato. There is evidence of early Greek and Muslim sociological contributions, especially by Ibn Khaldun, whose Muqaddimah is viewed by many as the earliest work on sociology as a social science. Several other forerunners of sociology, from Giambattista Vico up to Karl Marx, are nowadays considered classical sociologists. Sociology later emerged as a scientific discipline in the early 19th century as an academic response to the challenges of modernity and modernization, such as industrialization and urbanization. Sociologists hope not only to understand what holds social groups together, but also to develop responses to social disintegration and exploitation. The term “sociologie” was first used in 1780 by the French essayist Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748-1836)
