Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) In the nineteenth century, as an attempt to understand the massive social and economic changes that had been weeping across Western Europe in the seventeenth, eighteen, and nineteenth centuries, sociology was developed as an autonomous subject, separate from philosophy and economics. With theories, sociology continues profoundly influence the way to explain why social phenomena have the characteristics they have, provides ideas for an analysis of complex social processes and aids in the …showed first 75 words of 666 total…

…showed last 75 words of 666 total…racial conflict, the war against terrorism. Individuals even in post-modernity still don't have total choice but constrained by society in which she or he lives. For example, gender today still constrains what a person can think and do. Socialization remains important in creating individuals. Education is the most influential means of socialization. For example, compulsory education like in Singapore is used as the means to instill the population with values necessary for a multi-racial society.