SOC 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Feminist Sociology, The Sociological Imagination, Class Conflict

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Stephan Larose

Document Summary

Political revolutions: suggested that people could change society. The industrial revolution combined with urbanization: paved ways to social thinker who were. Scientific revolution; suggested that science of society was possible, there used to be only trying to find solutions to pressing social problems philosophers talking about the ideals of society, and what it should be. Stressed the importance of social conflict, and the need for futher change and rev. Every aspect of social life is based on economic relationships. The conflict between those who own the means of production and those who do not: class. The conflict between the bourgeoisie (capitalist class) and the proletariat (working class) conflict. Concerned with the fast and rapid changes form industrial revolution. Focus was on meaningful social action: the motives that underlie human behaviour. Was looking at social actors, he didn"t think that there were conditioned by the rest of society.