SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Scientific Method, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Ludwig Feuerbach
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Marx/engels: the french revolutions has occurred and _ is trying to understand what has happened, _ technically wasn"t a sociologist but used sociological terms. So, positivism is a view about the appropriate methodology of social science, emphasizing empirical observation. Marx: hints at the concept of alienation, marx didn"t want to be famous and wrote a lot about that. The dialetical perspective: rejection of either / or you cannot choose one or the other, there has to be a mix of them or a balance, zero good or evil individual-society, mind-brain. Non-dialectical: everything either totally positive or negative: everything is in constant movement, nothing is static. Relationship of part to whole the idea that something is defined not only because of their uniqueness (individual) but because of the things around them (society) Hegel: focuses on idealism (the ideas that determine social change)
