Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: French Revolution, Persian Letters, Scientific Revolution
1 Feb 2017
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Organic (society is those interconnecting subsystems, all parts work together) or. Nature (the way we behave and interact with each other) or nurture (behaviour and interactions are a part of our social environment: individuals. Actors (agency create social structure) or reactors (no agency reacting to their wider social structure: ontology. Nominalism (reality is socially constructed) and realism (reality is fixed: epistemology. Positivism (science) and experiential (sensing and experience: methodology. Objective (separate fact and value) and subjective (cannot separate fact and value: social order. Right wing = conservative: maintain tradition, maintain status quo, refuse change, society is as it ought to be, harper tough on crime, maintain social stratification hierarchy (ranking system according to class, wealth, gender, education, etc. ) Increase taxes for the middle class, decrease taxes for the rich: lowering taxes cut social services (health care, education, financial assistance, child services, social structure controls the individual we cannot control it. Discipline of sociology was born in the 1900s.
