Sociology 1025A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Auguste Comte, U.S. Route 21, Interdisciplinarity
14 Jan 2017
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Lecture #2: chapter 1 seeing and acting through the lens of sociology. In our society it is assumed you will go onto post-se(cid:272)o(cid:374)da(cid:396)y, a(cid:374)d to (cid:862)stay at ho(cid:373)e(cid:863) is see(cid:374) as lesse(cid:396) Micro level individual experiences and personal choices. Macro level broader social forces, life chances, social institutions. Sociology is the systematic study of society using the sociological imagination. Ibn khaldun (1332-1406), analyze the growth and decline of ottoman. French revolution (1789-1799) and enlightenment: rapid social change: work, gender dynamics, lifestyle, move from church and religion as a way of explaining everything, and towards science, fact, natural world, french rev. Its (cid:374)ot just to ha(cid:448)e such inequality and wealth distribution issues. Auguste comte (1798-1857), science can be used to understand social change: people have a role in society that they should be playing. Intellectuals have a role in how society should be run.
