The Chambers dictionary definition of sociology is "the study of the structure and functioning of human society". Human society and interactions have fascinated philosophers and social scientists for a very long time.

However, the academic study of sociology is a fairly recent phenomenon. It was first defined by French philosopher Auguste Comte in the 1830's. He used it to describe his concept of a new science that would discover laws of human society resembling the laws of nature. It wasn't until the late 1880's that sociology was recognised as an academic discipline, when Emile Durkheim began teaching sociology at the Universities of Bordeaux and Pari

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