SOAN 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Historical Method, Montesquieu, Blaise Pascal
11 Feb 2015
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Soan2112 19th century positivism saint simon, comte. Sought to create a new and organic social order based upon new principles/forces that had come to view: admired social unity of medieval order, acknowledged there was no going back. Stressed anticipation and purpose how things could be changed for the better. Social reform etc. discussion: marx adopted saint simon"s terminologies, including using positivism interchangeably with empiricism. Idea that there is a life cycle to society organic paradigm not a sum of parts, everything is interdependent, an organized machine. Interrelated systems changing in accordance with the underlying system of thought: machine analogy, organic analogy etc. discussion. History and background: montpellier, artist corot (1796-1875, ecole polytechnique. Organic paradigm: utilizing the assumptions provided by naturalism, rationalism, social reform, and the positivist method, developed a view of society concentrating on its systematic needs with functionally interrelated parts though the division of labour.
