SOCIOL 2S06 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ludwig Feuerbach, Materialism, Dialectical Materialism
2 Feb 2015
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Studying soc theory: reason for studying soc theory. Interpreting social conditions: gives us a way to make sense of the social world. Ex: understand the role of a transnational corporation (such as. Nike) through karl marx"s ideas about capitalism, max weber"s ideas about bureaucracy: comparing different perspectives: many different sociological theories that give is many different perspectives on social conditions. When we compare we can do 2 things: get different insights on social conditions, consider which perspectives are most useful for understanding social conditions (analyse and make an argument, understanding the emergence of sociological theory: Soc theory emerged in the late 29th century. It didn"t emerge earlier because sociology grew with the historical and intellectual developments. Was a period of the intellectual development and change in philosophical thinking during the 17th and 18th century: key aspects of enlightenment thinking, reason: involves the human ability to think about things more specifically.
