CMNS 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Age Of Enlightenment, Social Fact, Nomothetic
21 Jan 2017
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Unified science and the power to fix things. August comete"s 3 stages in the evolution of knowledge production. Theological stage things happen because of the actions of the gods. Metaphysical stage abstract explanations based in argumentation a. Basing tings on argumentation/power /arbitrary but not actions based on logic and reason. Positivist stage explanations based in science, experimentation and observation a. b. c. d. This work was happening in private societies, not in universities. Positivism boasts a unified approach to knowledge production. Reliance on social facts (externally observed) o o o o. Palys points out there is a reliance on the externally observed. Originally formulated for the natural science (bio, chem, phys) During european enlightenment, people thought this approach could also be applied to the social world, and then it creates the idea of social facts. Social facts are for example, the idea that gender is written in stone o.
