SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Auguste Comte, Industrial Revolution, Industrial Society
7 Sep 2016
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Forces affecting the development of sociological theory: social forces, political revolutions took place in the 18th century and 19th century (ex. American revolution) these revolutions brought a lot of changes. They brought positive changes since it brought greater freedom and democracy. They brought negative changes such as resulting chaos and disorder. Early theorists were more concerned about negative changes and were interested in restoring social order restoring order can be seen in both auguste comte and. Factory owners were profiting at the expense of factory workers (workers worked long hours with low wages they were being exploited) There were negative reactions to the rise of capitalism to the emergence of industrial revolution (ex. labour movement emerged to fight for rights of workers and radical movement were pushing to overthrow capitalism) Early social theorists were eager in understanding problems associated with capitalism and industrial revolutions (ex.
