SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Nicolaus Copernicus, Auguste Comte, Scientific Revolution
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Belief: heliocentric cosmos sun at center. Challenging church knowledge: rene descartes (1596-1650) Objectivism" (knowledge and truth) = methodical doubt (wipe out all existing ideas/assumptions) Discourse on method (1637: francis bacon (1561-1627) Argued true knowledge required correct reason + empirical data. 1st fully systematic presentation of the method we now call science. Obtain rationalist empiricism by adding experimental verification. Goal: discover laws of nature : auguste comte (1798-1857) Most ideas never made it to sociology. Importance: applied scientific approach to study of society. Further revolutions: 1700s the enlightenment age of reason, modernity: 1750s onwards western europe. Refers to social patterns resulting from industrialization. Birthed from britain, france and germany, then migrated to usa: modernization: process of social change initiated by industrialization. Increase in science: emergence/expansion of capitalism, expansion of western europe. Factories: centralization of work: required workers, located in new urban settings, so people had to leave their former way of life and migrate to wherever work was.
