Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Spoonbill, Chuck Bartowski, Cogito Ergo Sum

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2240E
• Professor: Brendan Murphy

Document Summary

Agent: one who acts for another person or institution by the authority of said: similar to soc because it"s an individual who acts in for something institution (think like james bond or chuck bartowski) else . The discourse of sociology is founded on these things existing and whatever. Self and society are pretty similar to agent and structure. There"s a dialectic between self and society. Becoming a radical anything comes from going back to the roots: the relations between these things, it"s really over the top. Huh is there pal: yeah fuck you. There"s a mind/body split: descartes: i think therefore i am (or cogito ergo sum) He sat around by a fire thinking about what he can doubt. The only thing that he couldn"t doubt was the fact that he was: he can doubt everything about his body, this is where the mind/body doubting split comes from.