SYG 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Auguste Comte, Industrial Revolution, Social Statics

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Sociology, Criminology and Law - Sociology
• Course: SYG 2000
• Professor: Marsiglio William

Document Summary

Separate personal troubles/biography from social issues or history o. Understand connection between biography and larger social/historical context. Sociology: advantages of lens: challenge impulse to see aspects of life as inevitable or natural, there are aspects of life that are influenced by social, environmental, etc, highlight social marginally/inequality. See diversity in america and elsewhere: draws attention to social problems and change. See connection: self and society: sociologists look at the paradox between humans and society. Humans have different identities, which is made possible by growth and development through social experiences: societies couldn"t exist if people didn"t have different identities because of the social hierarchy. Discipline"s origins: three separate, yet interdependent revolutions, scientific revolution. Belief in science, challenged traditional forms of authority and knowledge. As people began to believe more and more in science, they began to think of themselves as social scientists: economic revolution. Urbanization was a big part of industrialism and capitalism.