The development of sociology as a discipline is more of a lesson in history than anything else. Three factors that led to this development are: curiosity, willingness to challenge the norms and wanting to better ones position in society. Changes in history can also be related to advances in sociology as a discipline. Cultures have gone from believing everything the church tells them to believing that only the strong survive to now being able to think for themselves.
             For centuries cultures were led to believe that certain members of society were born into their positions because their God favored them in some way. For the longest the church ruled how people lived and viewed their life. Members of society were made to believe that they were born into their role because
             God made it so and that there was no way to move up the social ladder. Any challenge to this current thinking was met with strict and harsh punishment. However once people started questioning these believes more and more people also became curious. An event in history that can be related to this is the Crusades. The Catholic Church used knights to seek out and basically punish any non-believers. However with leaders such as Marx and Engels to challenge these believes, reform came in the form or art and literature. Art and literature went from depicting religion to glorifying everyday people. Science was also a major advancement in society as a discipline. People started looking for other explanations of how and why the world worked, rather than just believing what the churches told them. When the church was unable to give logical explanations, the church as a whole started to lose it's grip on society. The Catholic church was not the only one to lose control over society, after World War I people started challenging the rule of royalty that had been around for centuries. To this day the British royal family is nothing more of a figure head.
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