Word: khaldun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such special social sciences are one of them much more than 100 years old, and Sociology depends upon them for many of its data. Although Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Ibn-Khaldun, Macchiavelli, Montesquieu, and many other great thinkers had written on man and society from a general standpoint, it was not until about the time the French Revolution stirred European civilization to its roots that thinkers began to study various special aspects of human social relations. One group began to specialize on the development of our great social institutions like the State and the Church; another group concentrated...