SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Witchcraft, Age Of Enlightenment, Moral Panic
24 Oct 2016
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Central idea to which all of the essays paragraphs, statements, and information relate. Provides a concise overview of how you will arrange your ideas. Usually in the rst paragraph if the essay. When writing and revising your thesis, ask yourself: If you were believed to be a criminal exorcisms could be performed. Trepanation: drills holes in skull; done to let evil spirits out of brain. Intellectual movement that occurred in the late 1600s and early 1700s. Religious dogma and superstitious beliefs were replaced with a belief in the scienti c method and rational thought. Human activity determined by free will and rational thought, not spirits. In natural state,humans are nasty, brutish and short . Egoism is the cause of all social con ict. Thought we would hurt other people to advance our own interests. Challenged conventional wisdom of the time by arguing that people are born blank slates . Nurture, not nature, is the primary force that shapes us.
