SOC 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Feudalism, Young Hegelians, Primitive Communism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2112
• Professor: Joseph Sawan

Document Summary

Hegel: german idealist philosopher & social theorist, developed dialectics" as a lens for looking at the world (we are talking about opposing parts that are going to come together to create a whole), https://www. youtube. com/ watch?v=h5jge3lhuno. There is an essence in everything that has an absolute truth. There is a minimal agency in terms of human beings. It seems as something that is external to us. Such as god having this idea outside of human existence: opposites are always taking place and in different levels of capacity. He saw this in terms of history and in terms of everyday relationships and that this middle ground, once complete will provide a reality of absolute truth. State & society: concept developed based on the idea of the state", state represents the universal community, responsible for combating the harmful effects of civil society based on the individual will (berberoglu, p. 10)