SOC 3106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Verstehen, North American Free Trade Agreement, Rationality

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3106
• Professor: Andreas Buss

Document Summary

"without end, the river of immeasurable, related events surges onwards towards eternity" If reality is not submitted to scientific reflection, these are the conclusions that are made. "canada has signed the nafta agreement with the us: canada as a legal entity. "canada has exported 1 million tons of wheat to the us: canada as a geographic entity. "it would be to canada"s advantage to export more wheat to the us: e. "canada has won a hockey game against the us: canada as a unified team. Implied a philosophical discussion: all kinds of writers said there is reality, but always something behind reality, freud: "there is reality, but there is something behind it (the unconscious), nietzsche: there is something behind it (resentment) In weber"s time, german scientists saw themselves as natural scientists: discussions of the "social question" in social sciences were dominant, there were some authors who criticised a science that only described facts.