SOAN 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Royal Statistical Society, Auguste Comte, Class Conflict
9 Feb 2017
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Ii henri (comte) de saint simon (1760 1825) Government collect data on social issues. Acknowledge agnostics/atheists include major figures marx, engels, j. s mill, People were moved by the social question. People were asking why are things the way they are. Criminal stats became necessary because england eliminated hanging. Nationalist movement people wanting to control their own destiny (they were interested in mass education for all, not just for the elite) Reformed employers royal statistical society find data on social conditions to help improve society. More atheists looking to the sciences for ways to understand the world. Weber considered himself musically unreligious but was interested in studying religion (used it as a means to understand society) Influences all of mainstream sociology; influenced functionalism and. Argued philosophes had contributed to disintegration of the old order. Sought to create a new and organic social order based upon new principles. Work is the first to deal with the problems we recognize.
