SOC 1 Lecture 2: Sociology notes
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Understand the basics of core sociological theories. Brief historical trajectory of theories: immanuel kant. Leads kant to rationalize three major principles of morality. Human progress and human change exist in the realm of ideas (way we think) Change way of thinking, implement our ways. Mind = freedom > material world = constraint > synthesis. Prussian state as pinnacle of freedom = end of history. Freedom is contained within the radical ideas of man. Young hegelians = change from below (revolutionaries) Old hegelians = change from above (laws, customs, beliefs, etc. ) Marx believes young hegelan dialectic is wrong. Material world -> ideas/ideology -> synthesis: end of history. Ideas and ideologies are often constraining, not liberating. The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas the class which is ruling the material force of society is at the same time ruling the intellectual force .
