SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Scientific Revolution, Verstehen, Industrial Revolution

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Stephan Larose

Document Summary

Social transformaion: poliical revoluion: suggested that people could change society, industrial revoluion and urbanizaion: presented social thinker with a host of pressing social problems crying out for a soluion, scieniic revoluion: suggested that a science of society was possible. Merton on social funcional: manifest funcions: recognized and intended consequences of any social patern, latent funcions: consequences/ outcomes that are largely unrecognized and unintended (educaion system) educaion is used as a child care funcion so parents can go to work. 3: inscripion on marx"s monument in london"s high gate cemetery: The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however is to change it . Brief criical evaluaion: by highlighing inequality and division, glassed over how shared values or interdependence generates unity among poliical goals, relinquished any claims to scieniic objecivity, funcionalist and conlict perspecives envision society in very broad and abstract terms.