SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Sociological Imagination, Lifeworld, Mind Map

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

The importance of british political economy for marx"s thought. 3 approaches to knowledge: descartes, newton, locke, bacon, hume and the natural sciences, kant, hegel, goethe, dilthey and interpretive humanities3, hume, ferguson, smith, stewart, mill, ricardo, say and political economy. 3 central figure in emergence of socy: karl marx (1818-1883, emile durkheim (1858-1917, max weber (1864-1920) Influences on marx"s thought : towards a marx mind map . Lived experiences in germany, france and england. Ppl had cold war impressions of him he had ideological baggage. Freedom from religion, wanted to be free from roman catholic church, wanted to overcome class system, natural rhythm, free from a world in which we didn"t have much control. Progress development of science, understanding how world functions, controlling nature, moving away from religion, creating more freedom. 3 great classes (peasentry, eutrepeneualiship and immerging working class) Using human intellects, is there a limit to human reason.