SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Social Inequality, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Leviathan
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Was influenced by rousseau"s writings, but criticized them for his attitude towards the education of women. In rousseau"s emile he purposes an educational system for women that wollstonecraft finds that it sticks to the old-age prejudices. In response to the views on women by many british writers that wollstonecraft composes her major work, vindication of the rights of women: the social and intellectual context. 17-18th century europe and the world, a series of ongoing crises . The world turned upside down : the scientific revolution 1600s, colonialism; the anti-slave revolution in haiti 1791-1804. 1789: the french revolution (a) the discovery of society distinct from nature (b) the individual-society relationship (c) the discovery or social change versus natural change- time lapse photography flowers blooming (d) subjects >>> citizens. Social institutions are neither natural nor divine, but humanly created entities; can be transformed through social action. Newtonian scientific method to understand society: application of reason.
