SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Auguste Comte, Law Society

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100
• Professor: Stephen Speake

Document Summary

French revolution (1789-1799) and enlightenment: emphasis on: Reason (critical thinking applied to social issues) Auguste comte (1798 1857: science can be used to understand social change, coined sociology . Sociology emerged out of philosophy, economies, history, psychology, and law. Society is greater than the sum of its parts : social relations cannot be reduced to an individual, social life is a complex web of interconnectedness . Boundaries between disciplines have blurred ( eclectic . Working together to understand a social phenomenon (globalization, family studies) Sociological toolkit the sociological imagination is a cognitive skill tools to build sociological imagination: empirical research methods, sociological theorizing, critical thinking reliable knowledge is the necessary foundation for social action direct observation verifiable knowledge. Sociological thinking theory: set of propositions intended to explain a fact on phenomenon similar to a world view .