POLSCI 3Y03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cyrus Cylinder, Nonresistance, Counter-Reformation
12 Apr 2016
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Started in the aftermath of the industrial revolution. Failed to provide ontological grounding for a theory of rights. Only disciplinary engagement was on the concept of citizenship. Durkheim: precluded normative considerations, failed to offer causal explanation of social inequality. Weber: emphasis on value-free" social science, discredited axioms of natural law. Marx: rights to liberty, property, security are individualistic and divorce humans from society, laws are instruments of class domination, human rights just obscure fundamental inequalities. The division of labour in society wo/man are product of society. Concerned with socialization, adaptation and integration of individuals as members of society. Concerned with how life in common is possible (organic/mechanical solidarity) Economy and society, the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism society is the product of human action. Social agency, how wo/men create values and norms. How wo/men control the environment in which they live.
