This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sociology


00:01:35 1 Precursors
00:01:44 1.1 Ancient times
00:03:11 1.1.1 Ibn Khaldun (14th century)
00:05:32 2 Classical origins
00:06:26 2.1 The Enlightenment and positivism
00:06:36 2.1.1 Henri de Saint-Simon
00:08:12 2.1.2 Auguste Comte
00:11:42 2.2 Industrial revolution and the Darwinian revolution
00:11:53 2.2.1 Historical materialism
00:15:08 2.2.2 Social Darwinism
00:19:48 2.3 Other precursors
00:21:46 3 Foundation of the academic discipline
00:31:32 3.1 The canon: Durkheim, Marx, Weber
00:33:03 4 19th century: from positivism to antipositivism
00:39:37 5 20th century: critical theory, postmodernism, and positivist revival
00:50:20 6 See also



Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.

Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain

Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.

Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio:
https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91
Other Wikipedia audio articles at:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts
Upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts
Speaking Rate: 0.9179852719195326
Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-A


"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
- Socrates


SUMMARY
=======
Sociology as a scholarly discipline emerged primarily out of the Enlightenment thought, shortly after the French Revolution, as a positivist science of society. Its genesis owed to various key movements in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of knowledge. Social analysis in a broader sense, however, has origins in the common stock of philosophy and necessarily pre-dates the field. Modern academic sociology arose as a reaction to modernity, capitalism, urbanization, rationalization, secularization, colonization and imperialism. Late-19th-century sociology demonstrated a particularly strong interest in the emergence of the modern nation state; its constituent institutions, its units of socialization, and its means of surveillance. An emphasis on the concept of modernity, rather than the Enlightenment, often distinguishes sociological discourse from that of classical political philosophy.Various quantitative social research techniques have become common tools for governments, businesses, and organizations, and have also found use in the other social sciences. Divorced from theoretical explanations of social dynamics, this has given social research a degree of autonomy from the discipline of sociology. Similarly, "social science" has come to be appropriated as an umbrella term to refer to various disciplines which study humans, interaction, society or culture.