SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rationality, Empiricism, Age Of Enlightenment
2 Feb 2015
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A) reasons for studying sociological theory: interpreting social conditions. Making sense of the world around us; useful in everyday lives to understand the social world ex: transnational corporation: karl marx"s ideas about capitalism: comparing different perspectives. Made up of a variety of different perspectives, and by comparing the different perspectives, different insights arise. ex: max weber"s ideas about bureaucracy: understanding the emergence of sociological theory. Could not have emerged at any earlier of a time because prior to that time there were a number of historical and intellectual developments that paid the way of the emergence of sociology. Defined as a period of intellectual development and change in philosophical thinking during the. 17th and 18th centuries: key aspects of enlightenment thinking, reason: philosophers emphasized the importance of reason; human ability to think about things makes it possible to create, apply, and evaluate knowledge. Using empiricism allows us to move past abstract rational thought.
