SOC250Y1 Lecture Notes - Social Alienation, Animism, Practical Reason
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Markers: enlightenment (over superstition voltaire, rousseau, et al. ) Secularization process not over night features conflict between secularity and religion. Science (over faith) science becomes increasingly the source of authority scientific principles at work. Reason (over dogma) no more insisting on sacred truths reasoning through. Technology and this-worldly fulfillment (afterlife is remote, devalued) For the enlightenment thinkers, traditional religion was a dated superstition, a product of humanity s infancy and ignorance; with the rise of science, practical reason and technological progress would displace or supplant the religious worldview. ^occupies the role to fulfill needs and desires instead of looking for sacred or supernatural assistance. Weber rationalization all aspects of life moving to formal means-ends efficiencies, and disenchantment the world is calculable, manageable through technical-rational means of organization (bureaucracy), social relations based on law, contract. Decline of the supernatural as a regulative framework of understanding and action . ^modern societies were moving increasingly in the direction of formal rationality.
