SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Egotism, Age Of Enlightenment, Scientific Method

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11 Oct 2016

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Thursday, September 22, 2016

SOC1500*01

Historical Perspectives

- The Demonic Era

- Criminal behaviour caused by evil

• Strongly based on religion

- Belief that you’re possessed by the devil

- Drill a hole in skill-either you die or survive

- Early Modern Witch Trials

- Burning of three witches in Baden, Switzerland (c. 1585) —picture—

- Contemporary Witchcraft

- Still happening in India today, women are usually said to be witches especially after

their husbands die so others can take their property and kick them our of the town

- The Enlightenment

- Intellectual movement that occurred in the late 1600s and early 1700s

- Religious dogma and superstitious beliefs were replaced with a belief in the scientific

method and rational thought

• Human activity determined by free will and rational thought, not spirits

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