SY203 Chapter Notes -Anomie, Dreyfus Affair, Social Realism
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Great transformation: karl polanyi, massive social change which took place in europe between 1750 and 1920. Industrial capitalism had replaced the old feudal economies of the preceding period and. Durkheim: broke away from compte two great currents of social life. Lead to structural concepts began to be more formally incorporated into the study of society: structural. Defined social thought as different from historical thought. Conceptualise society as a structure of social fields which exist outside the individual. Modern social theory: discipline by undertaking the study of the changes that were taking place in the structure of social institutions during the transition from feudal society s. The political change, the feudal dynamic and the revolution in france: feudal society. System of land holding that was entirely rural. Agricultural economy geared to the production of a food supply. System of social relations centering on class distinctions between landholder and serf.
