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Comte, Spencer, Marx and other early theorists laid some of the foundations for sociology’s development, but there was no academic sociology in their time, and the subject had no institutional presence within universities. If sociology was to become part of Comte’s ‘hierarchy of the sciences’, then it needed to carve out a place alongside the natural sciences in the academy, where sociological training could be offered to students. In short, sociology needed to become respectable, and Emile Durkheim’s work in France went a long way towards achieving this. However, it took much longer for sociology to become established elsewhere.