SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Harriet Martineau, Auguste Comte, Positivism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Sachil Singh

Document Summary

Ex, how social structure impacts race, gender, religion, health, etc. The pioneers of the discipline - notably karl marx, emile durkheim, and max weber - did their most influential work in the late nineteenth century =, a time of great political, economic, and social upheaval . Ritzer (2000: political revolutions: social thinkers in search of social order, industrial revolution and rise of capitalism: shift from farm work to factory work, rising social inequality. Feudalism: rise of socialism: marx - moving towards socialism, no hierarchy, urbanisation: urban problems: overcrowding, noise, pollution, health issues, crime, unemployment, alcoholism, etc, religion: religious underpinnings of europe were undermined. With rise of capitalism there was fear that their privileges and society would be lost. Nobles and church officials did not like capitalism because they were not protected. Religion a new way to think about things: growth of scientific inquiry: scientific reasoning for knowledge production. Troubled by french revolution: marx and weber.