SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Inequality, Muqaddimah, Harriet Martineau

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

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Who: karl marx, emile durkheim, max weber, did their work during times of great political, economic, and social change, wanted to understand these changes and how to help exert control over them. Key social conditions of sociological development: political revolution. French revolution, death of the monarchy: social thinkers would have been in search of understanding of social order and lack thereof. In feudalist hierarchies, the (cid:272)hur(cid:272)h a(cid:374)d its(cid:859) figures held a lot of power. In capitalist societies, they no longer held the same influence: growth of scientific inquiry. August comte: coi(cid:374)ed ter(cid:373) (cid:862)so(cid:272)iology(cid:863, realized europe was in a state of crisis. Interested in finding the scientific basis for social interactions: movement from feudalism to capitalism, understood the position of the church and its preference for previous privileges. Saw sociology as the new religion that would shape society. Looked for the laws of the social universe. Saw a need to understand society in a historical lens.