SOCY 122 Chapter Notes -Sui Generis, Catholic Theology, Carl Linnaeus

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Outlined how the moral, intellectual, and social landscape of europe should be changed. Believed that human societies and the knowledge that structured them progressed through three stages-theological. Development of knowledge proceeded along the hierarchy of complexity-from astronomy and physics, the least complex, to chemistry and physiology, ultimately reaching social physics (social science) Sociology-the highest, most encompassing and complex form of knowledge. Focuses human association on more than mathematical terms. Advocate for the unity of the sciences- the uses of the scientific method in the study of both natural and social phenomena. Three moments in a hegelian dialectic-auguste comte: thesis. Fundamentally ambiguous:-implies that it"s in everyone"s interest to pursue their ends by scientific means, but on the other hand, science can unify the polity by authoritatively resolving, containing or circumventing social conflict. Observer effect- people who are aware they are under scientific observation may change their behaviours to conform to the researcher"s expectations, and social pressures cannot be measured directly.