SOCI 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Darwinism, Bourgeoisie, Double Consciousness
7 Oct 2016
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Three perspectives: functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism. 1) if structure was determining of people"s lives (c. wright mills)-personal troubles related to social issues: determinism, structure/agency. ^--consequences of enlightenment thinking, challenging the authority of the church. Individual is logically prior to society (preexists the social) Society is the outcome of the interactions between autonomous individuals. Role of the state to facilitate interactions between autonomous individuals. Social institutions can be controlled even reconstituted by the use of human reason. This human reason and human individuals are the driving force of history. In its approach to knowledge formation, it focuses on individual (its method privileges the individual) It is prevalent in sociology (rational choice theory) One of the legacies of enlightenment thinking is the privileging of individuals in knowledge formation. Massive transformations in all domains: political revolutions, economic (consequence of industrialization, social (result of organization) Social institutions have an existence independent of individual. Social institutions are not merely the outcome of people"s interaction.
