SOC202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mae, Auguste Comte, Single Person
6 Nov 2017
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Historical background to the enlightenment 12th to 18th c. (slide 2) Development of natural science: v. developments in philosophy, the catholic church was a the most powerful institution at the time, transition from feudalism to capitalism (beg. Ideology: (religious) ascriptive conservatism (no possibility of social mobility: you were born into this or that this is what social orders/nobility means, relations- 1st: how people relate to the means of production. If you need a bow and arrow, you make it (in hunter gatherer times) 2nd: how people relate to each other during the production process, people that you work next to and with, or how others relate to what you are producing ex. Their income would work up the later, like taxes- then called tides: corporate entity: refers to the idea that these three estates in society acted like a bodily function of society. Monarch is gods representative on earth, and the king was put there by god.
