SOCY 122 Chapter Notes -Keynesian Economics, Talcott Parsons, Behaviorism

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

Document Summary

Associated with max weber"s thesis on modern capitalism. Concerns the linage, attraction, or inner affinity between the protestant ethic/protestant sects and the spirit of modern capitalism. Inner affinity in several things, especially between this-worldly asceticism of sects and the underlying spirit of modern capitalism. Things associated with the second half of the twentieth century. Represents instances of dramatic historical and ideological change where modern narratives of progress and social holism is seen as contradictory. Knowledge must take into account the multiplicity of experience and the possibility of new, unanticipated experiences that will assist in making sense of reality in ways either not permitted or not imagined by modernist ideology. Considered dead because of the few major contributions. Not considered dead because few people believe in it. Directs attention to consumption, the body, and signs. Loss of history, disorienting sense of geography, and a breakdown between nature, culture, and society.