SOCB42H3 Lecture Notes - Capital Accumulation, Market Price, King You Of Zhou
Document Summary
Intellectual power: sophistication: complexity of thought understand consequences of small changes in life, conceptual tools. The sciences do not have classics but instead have exemplars but their books can"t be read and implemented today: shakespeare vs. newton. Some believe that classical sociological theory does not exist. Classic sociological theory: the longest lasting understanding of why groups stay together. The writers we will study fed many of the background ideas of sociological theory: discovered sociology as it could be studied. These writers looked at society and believed that there was order to social life. They looked at the old ways (religion) and believed that they were incompatible with modern world. Commerce, industry, democracy and science: exploded and advanced during the period that these authors lived. Social interactions changed dramatically: originally you have small village/town where you knew everyone and where your products were made and who made it. More and more people"s lives were defined by impersonal connections.
