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42. The underlined word ‘coining’ is closest in meaning to
41. - 43. soruları aşağıdaki parçaya göre cevaplayınız. ----.
A) excavation.
The origins of sociology and the coining of the term by Auguste B) negotiation
Comte, one of the important thinkers in the history of the C) invention
discipline, are usually traced back to 1839. However, others
D) variation
trace intellectual concern for sociological issues much further
back, and it could be argued that scholars have been thinking E) rejection
sociologically since the early history of humankind. However,
it was not until about a half-century after Comte’s creation of
the concept that sociology began to develop as a formal and
clearly distinct discipline, primarily in Europe and the United
States. It was another French thinker, Émile Durkheim, who
in the late 1800s was responsible for distinguishing clearly the
subject matter of sociology from neighbouring fields such as
psychology and biology. Sociology became institutionalised in
France, as well as in Germany, Great Britain, and the United
States. While sociology in the United States did not take the
early lead in the development of key ideas and theories, it did
move strongly in the direction of institutionalisation.

41. Which of the following can be understood from the 43. The author’s primary purpose is to ----.
passage regarding the origins of sociology?
A) introduce the sociological views of two thinkers
A) It started to grow as a branch of social science after the
B) compare aspects of sociology to other fields
introduction of the concept.
C) show the sociological differences in Europe
B) Early scholars are not believed to have added anything to
D) inform us about the development of sociology
the field until the term was introduced.
E) explain the different aspects of sociology
C) Durkheim was unable to define the distinctive features of
the field from the others.
D) Scholars were not interested in the field, so they
disregarded it until it was institutionalised.
E) Comte was the first thinker who distinguished the
different aspects of the field from the others.

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