SOAN 2112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Positivism, Bourgeoisie, Class Conflict

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2112
• Professor: Linda Hunter

Document Summary

Chapter 8: saint-simon (1960-1825) sometimes been regarded as a founder of socialism. Marx called him utopian socialist this meant saint-simon lived and wrote before industrial development had reached the critical point at which the. Contradictions" of capitalism had become clear that is, before class conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat had become a normal phenomenon. For the most part saint-simon was self-educated except for the help of some private tutors. He had fought with distinction in the american revolution and had been among the first to advance a scheme for a canal to join the atlantic with the. Scholars have now firmly established that saint-simon developed before. 1814 all the major ideas which later theorists called their own: positivism, industrialism, internationalism, a new religion". Growth of science, emergence of an industrial and commercial bourgeoisie, the protestant revolution and the negative-critical philosophical movement of the enlightenment, all served to undermine the catholic church and hence the unity of medieval society.