SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Consumerism, Scientific Method, Natural Science
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The intellectual and academic disciplines designed to comprehend, explain and predict events in our natural environment: biology, geology, chemistry. The intellectual an academic disciplines designed to understand the social world objectively by means of controlled and repeated observations: political science, economics, anthropology, psychology, sociology. Scientific revolution: the world becomes a world of cause and effect. Economic, industrial technology, urban growth, political change, starting to think abstractly: key ideas + changes. The reformation and centralization and standardization of education. Diminishing importance of religion, tradition, customs as it pertains to organize and run a society. The idea that inequality is not a natural thing. The idea that so(cid:272)iety is a (cid:862)thing that (cid:272)an (cid:271)e studied(cid:863) Went out and got jobs and built things with our hands. Mid 19th century sociology advanced bc of 3 things industrial revolution. Evolving from agriculture based society to factory production. Negative changes sparked transformations in thinking and beliefs.
