The origin of the word sociology from the latin word socius (companion) and the greek word ology (study of) indicates its nature as a hybrid discipline that can never aspire to the status of a social science of a coherant body of knowledge. The discipline itself has an ambivalent genealogy and a controversial recent history as the newest of the social sciences to establish itself in universities in the English speaking world. In Britain, for example, this did not happened ona large scale until the 1960s, when sociology departments were oftern accused of instigating students unrest
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