SOCI 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Industrial Society, Individualism, Making Money
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Monday, september 9, 2019 12:32 pm: method - how to study. Pay attention to a series of rules produced by philosophers. Looking at the context in which thinkers work. Constantly ask yourself, when they come up with schemes on how the world should be, where are the intellectuals: are they active or passive, are they making things happen or commenting on things happening, substance. It tries to theorize under which circumstance which social power is dominant: class, economic power, status. What is modernity: often see as the theory of set of ideas to explain what the modern world is, comprised of two different things: If people are making money, they won"t want to kill each other, they"ll be too distracted: world of liberalism, rational. Three schools of social thought: montesquieu, russeau, money will make you miserable, a world based upon "i want, i want, i want" will lead to disappointment, marx, durkheim.