SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Enclosure, Nationstates, Colonial Empire
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The scieniic revoluion: the intellectual revoluion: 1500s to 1600s, pre-modernity, against myth, tradiion, feudalism, chrisianity, for knowledge, progress, dominaion. Progress brings new ways of human interacions and relaionships. Replicability of research- produces new knowledge: rene descartes: When we observe a new phenomenon, we must ilter out all pre-conceived ideas and thoughts: francis bacon: Argued true knowledge required correct reason and empirical data. Empirical veriicaion, that the understandings we have make sense: isaac newton: 1st fully systemaic presentaion of method we now call science. Obtain raional empiricism by adding experimental veriicaion. Goal: to discover the laws of nature : auguste comte: Importance: applied scieniic approach to study of society. Use of scieniic method to understand our society and our social methods. 1700"s- the enlightenment: the age of reason. Modernity: 1750s onwards, western europe: refers to social paterns resuling from industrializaion. Modernizaion: process of social change iniiated by industrializaion. Factory-based industrial economy: factories: centralizaion of work.
