Sociology 2240E Chapter Notes -Class Conflict, Social Order, Social Fact
12 Dec 2014
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Lived during times of profound upheavals (ex. Revolution) which affected his ideas on nature of society and social change. Western society had reached a critical point; and science would replace religion as unifying institution. Society is an organic phenomenon, grows and develops: and he believed development meant ^ rationality and scientific knowledge. Wanted to unify the social sciences w/ a universal concept some suggest that comte gets most of the credit b/c saint-simon was a socialist. Nature of society, humans, and change industrial society needed new forms of social relationships and structures society had been rigid up until that point, but now it would return to an organic state" through science and industry. All social change was the result of the development of human knowledge and beliefs . Society progressed through stages: polytheistic, primitive stage; theological, feudal stage; modern stage of science and industry.
