 Western thought, therefore, received a significant movement towards cultural relativism, where cross-cultural comparison became the dominant methodology.Importantly, social science was created by philosophers who sought to turn ideas into actions and to unite theory and practice in an attempt to restructure society as a whole.Sociology of knowledge requires a certain viewpoint which was first expounded by Giambattista Vico in his "New Science", written in the early 18th Century, a great deal before the first sociologists study the relationship between knowledge and society.