SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Method, Anomie, Proletariat
30 Nov 2014
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Manitoba where aboriginal persons comprise 9%of the adult population 61% sentenced compared to 72% in saskatchewan (test question) The birth of sociology in the age of revolution: sociology was developed in the 19th century by european scholars who were aware that their world was changing rapidly and fundamentally, scientific thinks like darwin and freud revolutionized scientific exploration, sociologists began to apply scientific method and methodological practice into analyzing society and social behavior, what was new when sociology was invented about two centuries ago was the idea that society could be studied scientifically, auguste comte (1758 1857) coined the term sociology (test question, he believed that sociologist should attempt to discover natural", social laws of human existence, comte believed that social thinking passed through three stages, the assumption that the world was run by supernatural, powerful gods, the idea that nature replaced the belief in a miraculous god, the application of science to understand the social world.
