SOCA01H3 Chapter 2: chapter 2- SOCA01
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Understand that sociology emergred as aresult of the work and ideas of many thinkers from around the world: from thucydides, plato and the ancient greek historians. First theorists to view people as responsible and accountable for the society they created. Individuals are the basic building blocks of society. Chapter 2: both agreed that if state cannot provide collective needs must be. Study of society was based markedly different from that of earlier theorists: questions about where society originated philosophical answers, suggested that people had never existed outside or without society. Believed humans were defined and created by society. Ideal types: classic or pure forms of a given social phenomenon: three types of government : republic, monarchy, despotism. Spirit behind republic was virtue, behind monarchy was honour and behind despotism was fear. Believed true nature of society is not what it is but instead what it wants to become. Insight into state of nature and social contract.
