Sociological Theory

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Conclusion

Sociology as a discipline is a product of modern society. Sociological theory, therefore, endeavours to account for modern society. This is true for all the classical statements about the emergence and transformation of human society more or less between the period of the French Revolution of the later half of the eighteenth-century and the end of Word War I. It was a period that saw a dramatic change in people's lives and social living. A liberal, modern, bureaucratic nation-state grew in this period in the West, breaking away from the rural, conservative, theology-inspired feudal States. Classical sociological theory is exclusively an intellectual response to theorize on the problems and issues associated with the emergence of ...