SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jane Addams, Friedrich Engels, Émile Durkheim
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Sociological imagination to draw and to narrate the story of the world in which we are living. Wanted to understand the world in the way it is structured. Each one was trying to understand the fundamental components of the society and what the society meant for the people living in it ex: a spectre is haunting europe-karl marx and frederick engels. Exploitation of labor, value of money, factory system replaced the mind and the hands of the craftsmen. What kind of world depends on the division of labor that doesn"t just divide up a job, but divides and splits the person. What kind of society broke traditional values and replaced it with modern ideas. First major study: why were so many people committing suicide in the new modern society that is suppose to be making things better. What kind of society can have free exchange but still have a bureaucratic system and its social impact.
