SOCL 3101 Lecture : First Month's Notes
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Not telling us what to do: human nature doesn"t change in society, they remain self-interested, doesn"t explain how society works, locke, adam smith, social classes. Jeremy benthon (something like that: utilitarianism, everyone is equal. Conflict tradition: largely about vaber and marx. In a way we could say that the conflict tradition builds on the individualism. Durkheim critiquing social contract theory in beginning is state of nature and in state of nature everybody has sovereignty and rights and freedom over themselves. Microinteraction: the self and society, the self/discovery of the individual, theorists. The self and society: historical context, project of modernity, revolt from superstition, reason and rationality. Id, ego, superego: the ego and the id (1923, pleasure, reason, norms, prime example of modernity (superego, ubermensch (friedrich nietzsche 1883) Theoretical orientation: charles peirce, ferdinand de saussure, georg simmel, max weber, edmund husserl, martin heidegger. I and me: active and socialized, ego and censor (freud) Spencer: an independent scholar in england, very popular.
