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: Sociological theory
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The field of sociology itself is a relatively new discipline and so, by extension, is the field of sociological theory. Both date back to the 18th and 19th centuries, periods of drastic social change, where societies would begin to see, for example, the emergence of industrialization, urbanization, democracy, and early capitalism.
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