SOC 3118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Montesquieu, Angel, Age Of Enlightenment

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3118
• Professor: Jean- François Chapman

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September 12th- 15th2017: from the time we are born there are many factors that influence us, parents, school, culture, society, the society we live in, democratic, technology, rights and freedoms, capitalistic/consumeristic. Individualistic: self-reflexivity: an individual that thinks about their own life course. Inquisition: auto da fe/witch burning, heresy trails. It is an epistemological revolution, a transition to new ideas in philosophy, art, Economics, government, science and technology this was an era in which people used reason to try to understand more about human behaviour and solve the problems of society: reason, liberty equality, fraternity and progress. Thinkers of the enlightenment: e(cid:374)e des(cid:272)a(cid:396)tesl the fathe(cid:396) of (cid:373)ode(cid:396)(cid:374) (cid:396)atio(cid:374)alis(cid:373) (cid:862)i thi(cid:374)k, the(cid:396)efo(cid:396)e i a(cid:373)(cid:863, francis bacon: scientific method systematic observation and careful experiments would lead to correct principles. Isaac newton: natural laws can be discovered: dide(cid:396)ot(cid:859)s e(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:455)(cid:272)lopedia: collected enlightenment articles in an encyclopedia that helped to spread ideas throughout europe and america.