SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Harriet Martineau, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Commodification

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Factors that led to the emergence of sociology: The enlightenment (1700s) science, progress, individual. The counter-enlightenment (end of 1700s) too much individual = anarchy! Differentiation of social sciences within the university history, economics, psychology, and anthropology. With these intellection tools, 18th and 19th century thinkers wanted to analyze the remarkable change occurring around them, composed of the other three factors. Expansion of commerce and markets globalization. Decline of local communities in rural areas. Decline in the power of the church. Sociology became the specialized form of assessing social change. Sociology was born because social scientists were trying to understand drawing from social science disciplines that emerged earlier change which felt chaotic and hard to understand. The basis of social change is conflict about production. Historical refers to the enlightenment process of progress. Believes history is evolving and changing through materialism (materialism means what"s driving us forward is material things)

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