SOC 3118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deconstruction, Nuclear Family, Simulacrum

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3118
• Professor: Jean- François Chapman

Document Summary

Current society (canada) - brainstorm: democracy, rights and freedom, communication technologies, capitalism/consumerism, products/knowledge jobs, money. Individualistic: but we share a main core/core values diversity acceptance equality reflective/self-reflectivity individual thinks about his/her life course we can reinvent ourselves multiple times. The rise of modernity: the enlightenment: the 1600s had a different ideology - one steeped in supernatural politics, alchemy, angelology, demonology the great chain of being. He was imprisoned: protestantism, this questioning to the church trying to protect its monopoly, war inquisition (torturing until you accept the word of god, witch burning, heresy trials. The french revolution) with a rejection : of dogma, of traditional religion, of (in some cases) monarchy, the world was ready to gain knowledge and wisdom: to be freed from prejudice, ignorance, or superstition. It is an epistemological revolution, a transition to new ideas in philosophy, art,