SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Auguste Comte, George Ritzer, Social Statics

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Joseph Sawan

Document Summary

Chapter 5: beginnings of sociology & mile durkheim. Academic disciplines are shaped by the social, economic, and political circumstances in which they emerged. Sociology was developed by those who wanted to understand and control the direction of dynamic social changes taking place in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century europe and north america. The french revolution began a series of political revolutions that had a significant impact on western europe and north america. The chaos and disorder that marked these revolutions left social thinkers of the time intent on doing everything possible to restore the previous sense of order to society. The less conservative among them believed a return to feudalism was not possible and not desirable. They believed that society needed organizing from a new foundation based on the equality of all humans. The industrial revolution and the rise of capitalism. The industrial revolution transformed the economies of most western. European countries from an agricultural base to an industrial base.