SOCIOL 2S06 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Petite Bourgeoisie, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jenny Von Westphalen
24 Nov 2016
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Social forces: political revolutions, 18th + 19th century, french and american revolution generated changes, greater freedom and democracy but chaos and disorder. Impact of enlightenment and conservative research: some forms of sociology developed a focus on being rational, empirical, scientific, and oriented towards social change, other forms were oriented towards social order. Ideas of auguste comte: developed term social physics later sociology . Understanding social change was most important: law of three stages (world has gone through 3 stages) Theological understanding world through religion (>1300s) Metaphysical understanding world through philosophy (1300-1800) Positive understanding world through science: positivism = system of thought which recognizes only that which can be scientifically verified of logically proven, social order and disorder. Theological and metaphysical stage continuing to exist = social disorder (conflicts) Influenced by three things: enlightenment, conservative reaction to enlightenment, comte: built on comte"s view: sociology should be modeled on natural sciences, developed methodology the rules of the sociological method .
