EARLY HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT IN SOCIAL SCIENCE
- 1. SABITHA O S 1ST Bed (social science) Roll No : 47 U.C.T.E. MUVATTUPUZHA
- 2. The history of the Social Sciences has origins in the Common Stock of western philosophy and shares various prelursors, but began most intentionally in the early 19th century with the positivist philosophy of Science. The idea that Society may be studied in a standardized and objective manner, with Scholarly rules and methodology is comparatively recent. While there is evidence of early Sociology in medievalism and while philosophers such as Confucius had long science theorized on topics such as social roles, the scientific analysis of “man” is peculiar to the intellectual break away from age of enlightment and focused on discourses of modernity. Social science came forth from the moral philosophy of the time and was influenced by the Age of Revaluation and the French Revolutions. The beginning of the Social Science in the 18th Century are reflected in the grand encyclopedia of Diderot, with articles from Rousseau and other proneers.
- 12. • The 1700’s are known as the “Age of Enlightenment” • Leaders looked back to the ‘darkness’of past (period of the unknown) and wanted to shed light (knowledge) on society, thu giving rise to change and allow progress for the future. • Enlightenment started in Italy • New scientific Research & Innovations developed • Major Thinkers- Francis Backon, Rene Descarte, Immanual Kant, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Montesque, Voltaire, Rousseau, Issac Newton.
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