SOAN 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Montesquieu, Social Fact, Dreyfus Affair
2 Jul 2016
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Educated in paris- trained in philosophy and history. Received a faculty appointment at the university of bordeaux. Influenced by the work of montesquieu, rousseau, kant, saint-simon, comte and. Spencer the goal of sociology was to develop social laws allow for creation of a morally unified industrial social order. Synthesized elements from two opposing schools of thought: 1 - french enlightenment (rousseau, voltaire, diderot) - individualism, democracy, individual liberties, scientific rationality, 2 - anti-enlightenment reaction - social institutions, individuals need for support and control. Published more than 500 articles, books, and reviews. Invested the nature of social order, social change, suicide, sociological methodology, sociology of education, sociology of knowledge, sociology of morality, and the sociology of religion. Transition from a simple or primitive society to a more complex industrial society. Social is sui generis: of his or her kind ( unique)
