Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Dialectic, The Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels
6 Dec 2013
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Prescriptive realism making ought judgments about society (moral judgments) Operationalization act of putting terms of hypothesis into measurable form (your values come into play. Causal law refers to non-social variables (environment). Comte"s view of tableau cerebral; people were not intelligent enough to control own behavior. Comte - not logically possible to be both an organicist and positivist. Rousseau"s notion of man in a state of nature . Sense of what we would be like by nature. Idea of evil due to what we were taught, not nature. His work; foundational & moral he didn"t start as a sociologist, but as a social critic. He was concerned with analyzing how the capitalist world worked & wanted to indicate to the reader that it was fundamentally unjust/immoral: the immorality would cause a variable that would lead to social revolution. If more humans begin to understand that, they will start to do something about it = basis of social change in his theory.
