HUMNNTR 2210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Social Fact, Anomie
22 Aug 2016
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9/3 - 9/24: study social change when there are social problems. People aren"t interested in why until something goes wrong. (more interest) Ex) people in the 60s wanted to major in sociology, in the 80s they didn"t: rise of science in the 16th century and the age of enlightenment. A reaction to the dark ages, superstition, and religious persecution: industrialization indirectly led to the development of sociology as a discipline. Think of all the changes that occurred as a result of industrialization. Urbanization (end of feudalism, rapid changes, homelessness, moved to cities, disruption, not enough jobs) Education: social engineering was the goal solve social problems using science. Rules of science that governed social changes influenced by evolutionary theory. Thought we could use the rules of science; he wanted to have information that you could see and could be measured to come up with explanations (positivist) Biological analogy: comparing the evolution of social systems to the evolution of biological organisms.
