SOCI 3692 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mary Shelley, Individual And Group Rights, Invisible Hand
6 Nov 2018
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18th century thinkers brought light to science and tradition and ignorance; light of reason revealed how world words, what values they should hold. Shaped american/french revolution: promoted belief that we could choose own social conditions based on reason. Science, individual reason, tolerance of difference, equal rights. Printing press rise in literature/education promoting empiricism. Protestation reformation: christians form own ideas while reading bible. Mary shelly and frankenstein and rousseau: romantic movement contradicted and complementing enlightment. Sociology came from critique of both thoughts in france/germany. Ho(cid:271)(cid:271)es: if you are(cid:374)"t i(cid:374) so(cid:272)iety = life is (cid:271)rutish a(cid:374)d short. A theory of society without what society is. O(cid:374)e"s (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious a(cid:272)t of esta(cid:271)lishi(cid:374)g goal and realizing it. Cause = goal in head; effect = realization of goal. Prior to state of society society is for most ppl. Slaves choose to live as slaves or die. Chose to live = agrees to social contract.
