SOC354H5 Lecture Notes - International Development, Core Countries, Jean-Paul Sartre
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Struggling in 50"s with two broad strands that were suffocating sociology: statistical. He knew there was a role for it. A clear cut formula, in a very limited sense. If you ask only these questions, limited to the quantitative questions you could ask. Able to come up with clear cut answers. He argued that sociology needs to have big picture accounts in as lucid ways as possible. Presenting it in a way, that anyone who reads it, will know what is going on. Critical take on what is going on in the world. The stages of economic growth was his book, a non communist manifesto was a subtitle. Try to argue that how society has developed economically, politically, etc. they all go through similar stages. Looking at bounded nation states, eg. usa, germany, etc. Ex. looking at human embrio, all go through same stages, adaption of theory on to society, all societies are dominated by culture.
