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19th-century philosophy - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) Brief historical outline. Influences from the late Enlightenment. Philosophical schools and tendencies. German idealism. Utilitarianism. Marxism. Existentialism. Positivism. Pragmatism. British idealism. Transcendentalism. Social Darwinism. Ontologism. See also. References. Further reading.
Sociology. Sociology is the scientific and systematic study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, social theory became closely related to academic sociology, and other related studies such as anthropology, philosophy, and social work branched out into their own disciplines.
For many, the name of Herbert Spencer is virtually synonymous with Social Darwinism, a social theory that applies the law of the survival of the fittest to society and is integrally related to the nineteenth-century rise in scientific racism.
Historical sociology is an interdisciplinary field of research that combines sociological and historical methods to understand the past, how societies have developed over time, and the impact this has on the present.
Though essentially all major social scientists since the late 19th century have accepted that the discipline faces challenges that are different from those of the natural sciences, the ability to determine causal relationships invokes the same discussions held in science meta-theory.
