SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: World View, Social Change, Barter

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

Document Summary

1700-1789 western europe through agrarian to industrial. Society ruled by tradition (feudalism) and roman catholic. King was supreme owner of the land. Want humankind free of religion, feudalism, mysticism, tradition: mastery, progress. Humanity is progressing; we"ve mastered the world better. As the world changes, ideas change, which influence the. It will free us from religion and tradition world: marx drew ideas from weber and sometimes durkheim, scottish enlightenment, observe the world by seeing the world around us, begins growth of political economy. Emergence of sociology: enlightenment legacy, scientific world view, freedom. Workers: political economy explaining the nature and structure of society as a whole. German idealism: start with understanding the economy contradictions, prior to absolute reason knowledge is unstable and contains, contradictory elements propel the mind and knowledge forward, progress through historical development of mind/reason. Their activities: grundrisse of 1857-58 (1939, 1941;1953, marx"s critique of political economy, 7 notebooks. Superstructure legal and political superstructure; determinate forms of consciousness.