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.
This discipline marks a change in the way of thinking about social reality if detaching it from transcendental concerns and differing progressively from other sciences as a rational and systematic way of understanding society.