SOC231H5- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)
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We continue to learn from aristotle or machiavelli (or marx, weber, durkheim) without having to become aristotelians or machiavellians (or marxist, weberian, durkheimian) . Social structure ideology - agency = social change. Agency; social protest - engaging in intentional human activity to change social structure. Enlightenment movement; 18th century intellectual and social movement. To shed light of reason in society. Using a formula that applied to the natural world and trying to apply it to the social world. 12th - 18th century europe and the west; a series of ongoing crises (feudalism to capitalism) Class , gender : society not an organic unity. Positivism: the social and intellectual context. 17-18th century europe and the world, a series of ongoing crises : feudalism to. Colonialism; trans-atlantic slavery; the anti-slave revolution in haiti 1791-1804. (a) the discovery of society distinct from nature . (c) the discovery of social change versus natural change tropical storms versus revolutions.
