SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Age Of Enlightenment, Microsociology, Social Fact
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Several revolutions that took place in the 18th century had a profound influence on the origins of sociology. Produced an intellectual revolution in how people thought about social change, progress, and critical thinking. The process by which societies are transformed from dependence on agriculture and handmade products to an emphasis on manufacturing and related industries. The process by which an increasing proportion of a population lives in cities rather than in rural areas. Many people moved from being producers to being consumers. Early thinkers: a concern with social order and stability. Natural scientists had been using reason or rational thinking, to discover the laws of physics and the movement of the planets the laws of physics and the movement of the planets. Social thinkers began to believe that by applying the methods developed by the natural sciences, they might discover the laws of human behavior and apply these laws to solve social problems.
