Sociologist believe that our social surroundings create a bases for our thoughts and actions. It is believed that sociology and social sciences came about due to drastic social changes. These changes date back to the early 16th century when Europeans were exploring the world and came back to tell about all the different cultures and civilizations they observed across the seas. These radical social changes made Europeans rethink everything that they thought was the …show more content…
During this period, roughly from 1789 to somewhere in the 1790's, French citizens uprooted and reshaped their country's political old political structure that was based around century-old monarchy and the feudal system and replaced it with a more modernized approach. Much like the American Revolution, the French Revolution was also based around ideas of enlightenment, focusing particularly on popular sovereignty and inalienable rights. Even though the movement failed to achieve all of its goals, it did play a major part in shaping modern nations and showing them the role that people play in the world power and government.
In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Western Europe was subject to technological, social, and economic changes that forever changed the social order. Science and technology were developing rapidly: such as the invention of the steam engine and the antiseptic barrier that could be placed between a wound and its atmosphere to stop bacterial infection. These and other inventions helped sociologists help explain the social and natural