Describe the four factors which contributed to the emergence of sociology as a discipline in the 19th century?

Question

Describe the four factors which contributed to the emergence of sociology as a discipline in the 19th century?

Answer 1

religion

liberalization

industrialization

empire / war

Answer 2

church - the stranglehold it held on the masses and the abuses that led us to think - hey there's life beyond the church.  there was intellectual stimulation that led to burst of ingenuity / creativity / arts / hard sciences / evolution

industrial revolution - child labour, wages, exploitation etc that led us to develop social policies to have a better quality of life.

political sys that slowly led to the erosion of monarchy to constitutional democracy / marxism

colonialism - these colonies led to interesting field of study of hey there's life out there which we need to understand!