SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Sociological Imagination, Altruistic Suicide, Solidarity
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Soc101y1 lecture 1 caron <>: heading of slide. Underlying sociology is philosophy and its concepts of: ; based on evidence ( sensations) reverse of it is convincing. Scientific revolution : encouraged the use of evidence to substantiate theories. Systematic evidence": began about 1550, it encouraged the view that sound conclusions about the workings of society must be based on solid evidence, not just on speculation. Democratic revolution: encouraged the view that human action can change society human action (we can decide)": began about 1750. It suggested that people are responsible for organizing society and that human intervention can therefore solve social problems. Think how to support to grow social institution": began about 1780. It created a host of new and serious social problems that attracted the attention of many social thinkers. < sociology asking a set of questions 7 >
