SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Auguste Comte, Materialism, Determinism
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Soc231 lecture 2; dramatic social change (18th-19th century) Martha nussbaum - the examined life video. 1. concept of society - social world is not natural rather a social contract that can be changed or re-negotiated (martha nussbaum) Social contract is more or less and agreement of something between different people in society on a social subject. There is always negotiation going on between society and sociologists about society. 2. no theory can ever be complete; partial perspectives that capture only certain aspects of social reality. No social theory ever provides a god"s eye view" or total/final truth rather, the path to provisional truth". Not a theory but a way of thinking. All societies are arranged in social set of relations. Certain set of social arrangements that are durable and exist through different generations over long period of time. One ideology - way of looking at the world. All humans have agency - intention to act. Protest, resistance, repression, rebellion - french revolution".
