SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels, The Sociological Imagination
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A spectre is haunting europe (the communist manifesto)-karl marx, frederick. Contributions were trying to understand the world that they were living in. Appearance of an entirely new type of people-the factory people. Emile durkheim-what kind of world depends on division of labor-splits the person what kind of society would replace the kinds of collective traditions, sacred rituals with individualism? often led to suicide -alienation & disassociation. Max weber-the iron cage of the state. What kind of society would promote free trade and free markets and yet at the same time create suffocating bureaucracies. Jane addams what kind of society dispossessed their immigrants-left them in the slums. Dispossession and city life leader in the settlement house movement-self organized community projects. Sociological imagination: would enhance our freedom; purpose of life was to be free and not be a cheerful robot; definition of freedom: freedom is the ability to formulate the available choices.
