SOC 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ethnocentrism, Muqaddimah, Auguste Comte
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Soc 385 intro to soc theory ibn khaldun & contemporary sociology. Ibn khaldun was an ancient muslim scholar of (cid:498)human social organization and society(cid:499: recognized the importance of humility in not assuming he was the first to discover this topic. 1800s recognize ibn khaldun as a founder of the discipline: few european sociologists (sorokin, gumplowicz, barnes & becker, similarities from ibn khaldun(cid:495)s works are prevalent throughout early, ex: similarities between ibn khaldun & august comte, the (cid:498)father(cid:499) of. Hardly more visible than the women founders of sociology who have been since erased, pushed to the way-side, written out, ignored & forgotten this day: rarely has anyone applied ibn khaldun(cid:495)s theories to empirical studies up to. ***critiquing the discipline is a crucial part of being a good sociologist. Do not just accept what you are taught as (cid:494)the way things are(cid:495).
