Sociology 1026F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, C. Wright Mills, French Revolution
8 Nov 2016
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Sociology = study of social order, disorder and change. Macro scale (large) and micro scale (groups and institutions) Most essential insights drawn from history: history indispensible means of understanding future ways of behaving, not enough alone to understand society. Task of sociologist to identify a pattern of social convention and explain it. French and industrial revolutions much attentions= may have form sociology. Industrial revolution: social and economic change, displacement of peasantry, replacements with agricultural mage laborers, growth of industrial towns, widespread production of marketable commodities, urban dwellers. French revolution: social and political changes, liberality, individuality, fraternity, equality, bourgeoisie, challenged authority and tradition, destruction of french feudalism precondition for rise of bourgeoisie and others. Based on likeness and sameness, people organized into class and tribes etc with basic similarities. Argues law is religious in its origins, close relation between laws and collective conscious when laws are moral. Distinctive parts must be integrated for whole to survive .
