Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Actions, Industrial Revolution, Secularism
1 Dec 2018
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Industrial revolution technology coming to age: scientific method, secular approach to ideas and knowledge as opposed to the religious ideas that came before it. Example: set of ideas and technology goes to increased literacy in the. 1700"s when education was only for the wealthy/men people ought to be literate!: elements that we can identify in this paradigm (all connected), reason - how we think about the world. Belief in the capacity of human individuals to actually think for themselves and to reason for themselves, and to not have to rely upon someone else telling them how the world works. Particular mode by which we come up with knowledge of how the works - it"s not just philosophical, but it"s actually empirically demonstrable/verifiable ideas. Science: empiricism - people root things empirically, universalism - be able to hold in any particular circumstance, progress - agency / belief in capacity to improve the world, progression in society.
