SOSC 1000 Lecture 11: Intro to Social Science

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1000
• Professor: Terry Conlin

Document Summary

Excerpt from social conflict and environmental law: ethics, economics and equity. We are not just consumers, we are also citizens. We act as citizens to achieve what is best for the society and as consumers for what is good for ourselves. Speed on highways (for pleasure or need) (as a consumer) but still want police to enforce laws against speeding (as a citizen). The distinction between a consumer and citizen has long vexed the theory of public finance. Social science: between natural and the humanities. Social science can be anything you study. Plato"s republic is the root of political science, which is interested in what is the best government for human society. Auguste comte- thought that his task was to discover an ethical system for strengthening family life. Psychology was applied to solving human problems. Psychologists had to face questions about what was good or bad for mental health and any experiments with human beings had ethical dimensions.