SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lost Society, Status Quo
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Setting up educational system in france after napoleon iii, progressive thinker, liberalism of his thinking. Progressive, imagining and trying to develop scientific analysis of social system and development, trying to grapple a society to develop moral obligation. Scientific reasons can be melded with moral obligations. He is worried about what is being lost. Concern of social order: maintain and break down. He consider society an entity of itself, bigger and powerful than the individual members of the society. Coherently and empirically that society completes us with the sense of belonging. The decay of sense of community is what makes him worried. What are the key social institutions and values that need to be in place for societies like france. Division of labor is individualized, that divides ourselves. He is trying t put his discipline, he becomes most important entrepreneur of discipline emerging in scientific knowledge.
