SOCI 1F90 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Anna J. Cooper, Verstehen, Mary Wollstonecraft
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Theory: a statement that tries to explain how certain facts or variables are related in order to predict future events. Sociological imagination: seeing the world from another person"s perspective. Begins with the writings of thomas hobbes and concludes with the conservative reaction to the enlightenment. Suggested that people are responsible for creating the social world around them and that society could thus be changed through conscious reflection. He was one of the first theorists to view people as responsible and accountable for the society they created. Hobbes believed that people in the natural state existed just as all other animals did. Natural state: conception of the human condition before the emergence of formal social structures. People are motivated by self interest and the pursuit of power. Hobbes"s belief that the collective has the responsibility and power to overthrow a corrupt government was part of the justification behind the french and.
