SOC 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Thesis Statement, Moral Panic, Age Of Enlightenment

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2010
• Professor: Ryan Broll

Document Summary

The central idea to which all of the essays paragraphs, statements and information relate. Provides a concise overview of how you will arrange your ideas. Usually in the rst paragraph of the essay. Being possessed by the devil (form of evil ) If you were believed to be a criminal exorcisms happened to clean you, sometimes they drilled holes in your skull called trepanation . Early modern witch trials- burning of witches, huge moral panic around witchcraft there was fear that they were organizing against christianity. Intellectual movement that occurred in the last 1600"s and early 1700"s. Religious dogma and superstitious beliefs were replaced with a belief in the scienti c method and rational though. Human activity determined by free will and rational though, not spirits. In natural state, humans are nasty, brutish, and short . Egoism is the cause of all social con ict. We all give up some freedoms to the state in return for protection.