SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Feudalism, German Idealism, Productive Forces

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

Document Summary

Karl marx: the dialectic of dynamic, unstable social formations. Emergence of sociology: enlightenment legacy, three central objectives, freedom (from tradition, the power of the pope and kingship, mastery (understanding the laws, progress (of increasing human freedom, approaches to knowledge the natural sciences (descartes, locke, hume) Interpretive humanities (kant, hegel: political economy (hume, smith, mill, three central figures in emergence of sociology, karl marx (1818-1883, emilie durkheim (1853-1917, max weber (1864-1920) German idealism: freedom came from mastery of the natural and social world, mastery depended on the best knowledge possible. Contradictory change: at a certain stage of their development, the material productive forces of society come into contradictions with the existing relations of production, from forms of development of the productive forces, these relations transform into their fetters. It gives rise to an era of social revolution: the whole immense superstructure sooner or later revolutionizes itself.