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Sociology Essay Asses whether sociology could and/or should become construed as scientific By Albert Agius 12G Sociology Essay Sociology emerged in the eighteenth century after a period of intense cultural, social and economic changes. As people began to try to understand these changes, there came a period called the Enlightenment. This is also considered by Hamilton (1992) to be a "time characterised by the development of distinctively modern forms of thought about society and the realm of the social." The Enlightenment encouraged a new way of thinking marked by application of reason, experience and experiment to the natural and social world. Sociologists approached the study of society and change by using scientific means as they were inspired by the recognition of the value of scientific principles and procedures. Science is a systematic, rigorous, controlled discipline aimed at understanding, gathering knowledge about and predicting occurrences within the natural world. If a research method has these characteristics it...

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