SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Demonology, Inductivism, Himalayas

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3116
• Professor: Pamela Chapman

Document Summary

Technology: the process by which humans modify nature to meet their needs and wants. Concerned with processes that we use to alter/change the natural and social world. (invention, innovation) Every aspect of life centred around a supernatural power= god. Changes take place between the 15th and the 18th century; Epistemological revolution: transition to new ideas in philosophy, art, economics, government, Era where people used reason to try and understand more about human behavior and solve the problems of our society. Enlightenment thinkers challenged the divine right of kings and argued for liberty and rights. A desire for rationality, logic, consistency; the universe could be understood through reason. Rejection of emotionalism, preference for evidence, not faith. Look at society from your own view point. For disenchantment, to free humankind from ignorance and obscurism. Science is not god; it does not provide the answer to what we shall do and how we should live.