Learning from History

The prospect of learning something from history is what makes sociologists tick. It is through 【developing】 a systematic understanding of the forces which shape our lives that we 【can】 exercise control over them. The founding thinkers of sociology, who 【came】 to prominence during the development of what we are pleased to call modernity, thought so. It Is the intimate relationship between the development of sociology and the development of modernity that the course begins with. This relationship is an intimate one, because it is 【only】 with the social change instituted in the development of the modern world that a discipline such as sociology and social science in general could either exist or have anything to study.