Developed by credits the thinkers whose work actually built a social theory. Wikipedia notes structural functionalism's "organic or biological analogy" was "popularized by Herbert Spencer," and Wikipedia elsewhere records Durkheim "was a major proponent of structural functionalism, a foundational perspective in both sociology and anthropology." This dimension traces a theory back to the people who built and popularized it.
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1. Wikipedia: Sociology
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As a social science, sociology uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about social order and social change.
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