SOCB42H3 Lecture : Lecture 3
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Understand that modernity means both a system of ideas and a society based on those ideas. Learn definitions of social contract and social evolutionism. We are in a social contract; allows for legitimate authority. Giving up our rights for protection by institutions. Understand how the changes in the 18th and 19th c. societies influenced social theories of the time. Questions to guide the reading/to think about ahead of time for students. The biases you have influence the kind of questions you ask. More accepted in the us than it was in europe. Compte became more french than german to make it more acceptable views for society for the french. *according to ashley and orenstein, 19th c. france favoured a way of solving social problems different from the way accepted in britain. The french revolution was through social rev: trade->manu. -> lead to manu. ->lead to natural sciences. We continue the overview of earlier works that influenced the emerging sociology.
