does anyone know the name of the economic philosophy that contrubuted to the emergence of sociology?

Answer 1

Sociology has been a topic looked at since the times of Plato, so it is unlikely that an "economic philosophy" contributed to its emergence. The term Sociology was developed by Auguste Comte in 1838 from a mixture of latin and greek (latin: Socious meaning partner and greek: Logos meaning word).
Modern sociology was advanced by people like Marx, Pareto and Weber. Modern sociology was concearned with the effect of modernization, industrialization and urbanization.
You could say that all these were a result of early capitalism and that socialism came as a reaction to certain effects of capitalism.
It could be argued that Marx and Socialism had an impact in modern sociology.

Answer 2

I'd guess it'd be socialism. Marx looked at class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the working class proletariat as the way to view history and economics. Since he's breaking up and pairing off groups against each other, it's kind of a sociology type argument, non?

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