SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - Putting-Out System, Factory System, Word Formation
2 Mar 2013
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Many writers sought to find a new basis of order. Context: industrial revolution: intro to industrial revolution and other social forces in the development of sociological theory. People became aware that their world was not an inevitable fate, but a society created by and serving the interests of human beings. Social conditions and political revolutions: trying to find a new order in society that would be for the better interest in social order was very extreme at this time. Spent a great deal of time criticizing aspects of capitalist society: weber and durkheim opposed to socialism. Saw the problems of the capitalist system but rather than revolution, they looked for social reform. Religious change: within religious lives, sociologists wished to improved peoples lives and wished to do so by writing about religion. The growth of science: many early sociologists wanted to model sociology after the successful physical and biological sciences.
