Publisher's Synopsis
The economic, political and cultural changes in the West from the eighteenth century, as the Industrial Revolutions and French, showed significant changes in society on its past forms, mainly based on traditions. Thus arises the Sociology in the eighteenth century, with the first social research and the general ideas of the Enlightenment, as a way to understand and explain these social changes. Therefore, sociology is a science historically dated and that its emergence is linked to the consolidation of modern capitalism.