SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Herbert Blumer, Friedrich Engels, Auguste Comte
12 Mar 2019
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Understanding society-lecture 1: auguste comte, a french philosopher, used the term sociology" in 1838. Logos" (greek word)- the study of: auguste- wanted to establish a social science that was grounded in science, he wanted social physics. The predictions are not about specific individuals but about social groups. Definitions: sociology is the systematic study of human society and the behaviour of people in the society, sociological imagination by c. wright mills. It is the ability to see the intimate realities of our own lives in the context of common social structures. It is the ability to go beyond the personal issues we all experience and connect them to broader social structures. Dialectics: change is a result of internal stresses, principles of dialectics, everything is related, change is constant, change proceeds from quantitative to the qualitative, change is the result of the unity and struggle of opposites. Focuses on the ways individual human behaviour is influenced by broader society.
