SOCY 306 Lecture 5: socy309Lec 5.docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 306
• Professor: Scott Thompson

Document Summary

Created his own thing called history of systems of thought (not philosophy). Rejected the position he was invited to take as the chair of philosophy. Ship of fools sending mad people away on ships. Madness as mental illness that should be cured. Modern methods no less controlling than previous methods. Repeated brutality until the concept of judgement was internalized. There is no continuity in the definition of madness. Investigates the development of the medical profession and the institution (set of social and phusical relations) of the clinic. Not empirical (modernity/science) but development of its own set of rules. Lack of historical continuity of ways of thinking/knowledge/truth. Episteme (epochs)- different ways of knowing over time. Sudden and monumental shifts in ways of knowing conflict exists between ways of knowing, ways of knowing need to be asserted. A shorthand term for modern society, or industrial civilization.