SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Auguste Comte, Age Of Enlightenment, Social Statics
8 May 2016
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Interpret social conditions (make sense of what"s around us) Max weber"s idea about bureaucracy the role of transnational corporations (can compare how marx and weber see transnational corporations today, so we compare 2 different points of view on one social issue) Began to emerge in the late 19th century (as a discipline) Couldn"t have emerged any earlier than that because the emergence of sociology was influenced by a number of historical and intellectual developments that paved the way in the late 19th century. Was a period of intellectual development and change in philosophical thinking during the 17th and 18th centuries. Key aspects of enlightenment thinking (philosophers of this time emphasized these 3 things: reason: the human ability to logically think about things. Create logical explanations of reality theories test explanations against evidence (observations) ***look at slides. Reason and rationality (moving beyond non-rational explanations of the world based on myth/religion)
