Respect Writer

Essay question:

“In order to understand the problems which sociology tackles, we need to first understand the social and intellectual context from which it arose”. Discuss!

This is an example of the outline, was provided by the prof. that it “must” be followed in answering the question for the essay.

1 Para 1 Introduction – to understand the emergence of sociology, we must first understand its social context, especially the revolutions which preceded it.

2 Para 2 The Agricultural Revolution first transformed European societies

3 Para 3 The Industrial Revolution constituted an even more dramatic transformation

4 Para 4 Political revolutions (in the US, but especially France) not only transformed these countries, but resulted in new explanations of ‘society’ as well

5 Para 5 Conclusion – sociology emerged as an attempt to explain these massive transformations in European societies.

Re-write your essay outline, so that you reduce your outline to 5 numbered ‘words or phrases’ (ones which clearly identify the major theme of each paragraph)

Don’t forget to include the ‘essay question’ at the top.