SOCL 2001 Chapter : Sociology
Document Summary
Advances in medicine, biology, electricity, and radio waves, during the industrial revolution, basically exploring our natural world more. For the most part they did not like it for the working conditions were awful with working in the factories, over populating. With the advances, society was gaining more and more influence. 1700 was the age of racial thinking and reasoning, no natural laws from the government. method to the study of society, it was originally called social physicks or. They wanted to discovered governing laws of human behavior. This was for if something went wrong with society, we would be able to fix it with this new field. Auguste conte 1839 he proposed a science that would apply scientific. Herbert spencer, one of the most influential sociologists in the 1800s. Talcott parsons took the idea of evolution of societies, and turned these ideas functionalism of everything in society.
