A degree in a discipline means you have gone to school and got a diploma to study a particular topic. Engineering, Computer Science, English, Economics, Philosophy, Law, etc. ---------------------------------------... UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES.
Durkheim, the âfounding fatherâ of sociology. David Ãmile Durkheim was a French sociologist, social psychologist and philosopher. He formally established the academic discipline and â with Karl Marx and Max Weber â is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science and father of sociology.
For this reason, he preferred the term social physics to sociology. The Development of the Discipline . The first book with the word sociology in its title was assembled in the 19th century by the English philosopher Herbert Spencer. In the United States, the first Sociology course was taught at the University of Kansas, Lawrence in 1890 under the title Elements of Sociology (the oldest continuing sociology course in America).