HLTHAGE 2BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination, Auguste Comte
2 Feb 2017
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3 movements happened early on in history in terms of modern social theory: The renaissance and the enlightenment - western european. We went from a feudal system to a modern system - machination, urbanization - this caused social upheavals in cities - plagues, people working long hours, child labour, living conditions poor. During the scientific revolution - a separation from the church and how people were ruled and a prominence of science. The elite determined what happened in society. Auguste comte - french - treat social life like science. Study people the same way you would study the natural world (physics, geography etc) Positivism - looking at the world in a bias free, objective way. Anti-positivism - up until the 1950s we used positivism to approach aging. C wright mills questioned the quantitative method approach to aging and qualitative methods were risen. Tested the normal ways of looking at social life.
