SOC150H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Neoliberalism, Generic Point, Dialectic
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Final exam: date: april 24 (2 - 5pm) location: bn 2n. Format: 35 percent of final grade, section 1: choose 15 definitions out of 18 (1 percent each, definitions should be 1 paragraph (6-8 lines) each, section 2: choose 4 short answers out of 5 (5 percent each) Birth of sociology the scientific revolution (16th century: encouraged use of evidence to substantiate theories the democratic revolution (18th century, encouraged view that human action can change society the industrial revolution (19th century, gave sociologists their subject matter. Sociology for changing the world industrialization, urbanization, secularization, rationalization, globalization: key figures: durkheim, marx, weber, simmel, etc. tried to make sense of the changes in the world. Structure and agency: critique of neo-liberal subject, opportunities and constraints are not evenly distributed. The social: elements that constitute the social affect: our: opinions, values, beliefs, knowledge, habits, tastes, desires, dreams.
