Sociology 2240E Chapter 2: Chapter 2
7 Feb 2017
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Chapter 2- a historical sketch: the later years. Liberalism characteristic: a belief in the freedom and welfare of the individual, many sociologists associated with this orientation adopted an evolutionary view of social progress. Liberalism in its extreme comes close to conservatism: conservatism. In the end, the political liberalism of the early sociologists had enormously conservative implications. Social change and intellectual currents: not in favour of radically overhauling society though they did favour industrialization. Sociology aimed to improve society and peoples lot within it. Sudden emergence of academic professions in the modern university system. Spencer wrote in english whereas the others did not. Finally, his theory was soothing and reassuring to a society undergoing the wrenching process of industrialization society was, as according to spencer, steadily moving in the direction of greater and greater progress. But his so(cid:272)ial da(cid:396)(cid:449)i(cid:374)ist laissez fai(cid:396)e ideas see(cid:373)ed (cid:396)idi(cid:272)ulous i(cid:374) the light of (cid:373)assi(cid:448)e so(cid:272)ial p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373)s (a (cid:449)a(cid:396) a(cid:374)d e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) depression)
