SOC 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: William R. Catton Jr., Environmental Sociology, Scientific Revolution
13 Jan 2017
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Biological determinism: humans as one organism among others which follow, social determinism: humans are masters of our own destinies, human abilities and, principles emerged out of scientific r. Experimentation: a systematic method of measuring responses to stimuli. Positivism: only those things that are measurable or observable are real. Empiricism: theories and explanations should be based on concrete, observable evidence. Lecture 2: classic and contemporary sociological approaches to understanding the. Situating humans and nature: separate vs. co-constructed worlds. Three sets of revolutions: scientific revolution (1550-), democratic revolution (1750-), Industrial revolution (1780) evolution which informed early visions of sociology, which sought to apply them to human affairs: Emile durkheim worked toward developing rules for conducting sociology, including the type of knowledge sociology could deliver, how this knowledge could be acquired (outlining rules for establishing validity and the types of evidence qualified to make this determination.
