IHSS Blog: Development of Sociology - Aiden C
IHSS Blog: Development of Sociology - Aiden C Development of American Sociology: A Brief Historical Overview American sociology was brought here by European pioneers. People from Europe coming here to make a settlement or just get a piece of the new AMERICA! for themselves. This is probably because Europe had studied this before, and America had been so involved in war and reform that this just hadn’t occurred yet. These were the people to bring sociology to America, and the first evidence of that was the journal that came from the University of Chicago, called the “American Journal of Sociology” (Very typical name). This journal was all about the thought that “knowledge is related to dealing with real-life problems and social reforms”, and that you could study the way people act and use it to improve their lives. Karl Marx Karl Marx was an intellectual and a rebel. He seemed like the type of person that would be leading a protest, but normally that wasn’t true. He spent most of ...