Auguste Comte, to Whom the Credit of Inventing the Term ‘Sociology’ Is Given, Was Primarily Concerned With Developing an Empirical Science of Society, and Trying to Apply Scientific Method of Social Phenomena and Along With a Theory of Scientific and Social Process. Emile Durkheim Was One of the Founders of Structural Functionalism and He Analysed Society from Its Structural-Functional View Point.
It Is None of the Tasks of Sociology to Point Out the Goodness or Badness of Social Values and Determine Which Values Are Ultimately Good. Polygamy Is Good or Bad, Love- Marriage Is Desirable or Undesirable, Joint Family System Is Useful or Non-Useful, Caste System Is Harmful or Advantageous, Sociology Is Not Concerned. Its Purpose Is to Make an Empirical Analysis of Social Institutions and Not to Lay Down the Norms Regarding Them.