HIS242H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Scientific Method
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Science, culture, and the challenge of the irrational (intellectual history) Period of rapid changes around world, beginning of modern era. Technological advancements: telephone, electric lights, automobile. Population growth; urbanization: centralization of power, organized bureaucracies, between 1870-1914, the population of europe increased by half, large urban areas experience the most dramatic growth e. g. warsaw and berlin. Women now played major part in urban life: cities provided many new opportunities to women. Using the scientific method and applying it to the new study of studying people. The science of society : french philosophers accredited with positivism, society could be studied in a scientific way and development could be measured. Weber: father of modern sociology, sought to create an objective and value free science of sociology, studied trend of centralization and bureaucracy, rationalization. Cultural attempts to critique and understand the modern world. Idea that art could reveal what is hidden. Dostoevsky, the brother"s karamazov, 1880: addresses problem of evil.
