RLG210Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Protestantism, Social Alienation, Agnosticism
Document Summary
Modern theory started in 1960s and sociologists began to notice that in the societies that were moving in the fastest way were modern, and the religions were beginning to change people or hold them back. Social structural development of modernity: agricultural and industrializing. industrializing meant that overtime fewer people would be peasants and working the land. Up onto the industrial revolution were agriculturalists and there were wealthy classes and merchants and 96% of the population consisted of peasants and agriculturalists. They will be driven into country side and drifted into the factory system. Bureaucratization states become more managed by officials, keep records for the larger population, needs more management, Science and technology radically change the way human beings live. Science creates new ways to master the world. as a peasant, you are dependent of nature etc. with science and technology human intervention and mastery of environment retches it up to much that now there is ecological problems.
