SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Auguste Comte, Natural And Legal Rights, Social Integration
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Led to a standard of how we understand a social world. Suggested the scientific method could be applied to social world (positivism) Coined the term sociology, meaning the study of society. Engine of human history is class conflict. Society is made up of two classes. Bourgeoise: capitalist class (owns the mean of production) Roots of human misery lies in class conflict and exploitation. Proposed classless society: everyone works only towards their ability. Basis of sociology must be social facts. Found there are social factors that underlie suicide. Found people don"t take life for personal reasons. Found certain groups more likely to commit suicide. If we only look at human behavior in terms of the individual, we miss the social basis. Social integration are people tied to social groups and individual at same time. Within certain social groups are certain varying degrees of social integration. Stressed the idea of structure: certain things won"t change over time.
