SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Scientific Revolution, Structural Functionalism, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Jakub Burkowicz

Document Summary

Scientific revolution generated how we look at the world. Medieval city was not full of people. People pushed out into the city to look for jobs. People were not homeless in feudal society. Readical, propalsing a new way to do politics. Challenged the church and king to rule. All of europe are rocked by revolution. Every society must progress through the 3 stages. Before the clutches of the catholic church. Supernatural figures are the roots of everything. Question the world, god is not a good explanation. Giving up on a search for absolute answer. By applying rules of scientific method able to obtain positive facts of how the world works. Allows to use tools in the box. Link theories together and present a image of the world. Suicide results form lack of social ties. Model, used to explain why things are happening. Ties to extract principles by which they work. Drawing on the works of those before them.