SOC334 Study Guide - Profit Motive, Frankfurt School, Dialectic Of Enlightenment

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC334
• Professor: Ariane Hanemaayer

Document Summary

We are looking at the politics of knowledge the problem of in medias res. we are studying the very thing we are. it problematizes the notion of objectivity. We are part of the society we are trying to study. This is the problem of reflexivity in our own knowledge production Precursors to adorno"s work on the cultural industry tied to marx"s critical tradition. The sociology happening in the early 19th century had a chain of people thinking about. Marx and tying it to culture, and the economic industry that creates things for us to consume. What are the implications for understanding the phenomenological level of analysis? we have to rewind all the way to the. Enlightenment historical period from 17th to 18th centuries, characterized by dramatic revolutions in science, philosophy, society, and politics. the use of reason to generate valid knowledge. Immanuel kant was one of the first to think about what reason is and how we use it.