This paper examines how
sociology is a science which aims to discover and
explain the varying trends that create and effect
our current social relations and suggest possible futures. It looks at how
sociology has also been hugely influential since its inception and has helped to form the
society we live in today. It attempts to explain what caused people to start to think and question why society is the way it is and how it is directly linked to the changes during the period of time known as the 'Enlightenment'.