Sociology emerged as political science declined under positivist theories

Evidence

The rise of sociology is related to the decline of the concept of political science and the art of politics which took place in the nineteenth century (to be more accurate, in the second half of that century, with the success of evolutionary and positivist theories). Everything that is of real importance in sociology is nothing other than political science. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 914

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gramsci’s definitional claim that substantive sociology is reformulated political science — a framing the reader can carry into how Islamophobia research disciplines are positioned.
• XREF: connects to: Logical positivism began as an egalitarian political and social program — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 59