SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Friedrich Engels, Reductionism, German Idealism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

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Douglas library next week start thinking of a topic. Sociology is a child of the enlighment period or what is known as the modern era. Some ppl claim that we now live in a post modern era but that is debatable. It"s during the modern era that ww2 happens. In terms of sociological theory there are theorists that wrote before the war (classical) and those that wrote after the war (contemporary) -> so the classical tradition is the ket ideas and thinkers in sociology that were strong before ww2. Discuss two models of the internal dynamics of social change in the. At a certain stage of their development, the material productive forces of society come into contradiction with the existing relations of production . The material forces of production are the motor of history the driving force of history. Technology machinery is the motor of history . Industrial technology seemed to drive progress historical reasons for a.