[Sociology/Social Sciences] "Period of Enlightenment" Undergraduate Essay

Hi everyone!
I sleep badly at the moment because I have to meet so many deadlines around the same time. I've so far managed to meet all of them but I am currently working on a History essay, and I still have to write an essay for Sociology!

And in that subject I am not very inspired.
My question:

A number of social science disciplines emerged following the period of the Enlightenment. Examine the key aims of enlightenment thinkers and the reasons for the establishment of these new disciplines.

Essay Length: 2000 Words
References needed (Harvard Referencing Style)
Due: Thursday 17th December 2009

I would appreciate any help or suggestions! :-)

well, have you studied that topic of the Enlightenment? What stuck out? what did you learn? (if anything xD)
there were many different strains of thought or social science disciplines as the prompt calls them.
think of all the authors and what they espoused...change in thoughts of the man, somewhat a new approach that reflected the humanist idea of the Renaissance yes? Maybe I'm wrong..

I previously studied the period of Enlightenment in German seeing that I went to school with German as my mother tongue. So it's quite hard to adapt to the English view!

I didn't go to that lecture to be honest but we do have power point slides about this subject.
I thank you very much for this useful link! Looks great. I'm gonna get a few more Sociology textbooks from the library and try to forge a 2000 word essay in two days. Wish me luck!

That's good advice Jonathan.

Elesti, all you have to do is use a good book or article that describes the Enlightenment, and that description will have the answers you need. If you paraphrase a good encyclopedia entry and then cite some good articles, you'll be off to a good start.

:-)