Sociology of philosophy

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Sociology of philosophy or philosophical sociology is an academic discipline of both sociology & philosophy that seeks to understand the influence of philosophical thought upon society alongside societal influence upon philosophy.

It seeks to understand the social conditions in which the intellectual activity as well as effects of philosophy draw place within to frame our apprehension of explorations of truth and cognition as social processes.

History

The genealogy or founding of sociology can be traced from philosophy in its questions of society as well as societal knowledge. Prominent sociologists, including Marx and Durkheim, came from a philosophical background.

The precise separation of sociology and philosophy is blurred and changing. Sociology grew into a discipline out of philosophical research into a focus of the social and the working of society. Philosophy itself, having withdrawn from claims of the natural world cemented by the rise of empiricism in the Enlightenment Era, instead focused further on criticism of both its way of "knowing" cognition as well as other disciplines' claims on knowledge or epistemology.

Because of this, the history of sociology and philosophy is a sample of toing and froing, of regarded and intended separately. examining the other alongside interdisciplinary explorations that intersect them both.

Sociology of philosophy, as an empirical sociological branch based on theory, was developed in the 1980s.