SOCI 1100 Study Guide - Final Guide: For Marx, Investment, Family Therapy
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4 events that lead to the emergence of sociology (describe each in two sentences) Industrial revolution: technology advancing society, giving people jobs and cities to live in. Scientific revolution: away from religious explanation to scientific and methodological ones. Discovery of the new world: because of the scientific and industrial revolution, mankind ids able to travel and explore the world, brings new discoveries and chaos. French revolution: beginnings of universal human rights. Argues that it should be a scientific study of society; this knowledge can be used to understand why people behave the way they do and even, predict their behaviours and control them. In his materialistic conception of history, the driving force for social change and the source of conflict in society is economics. At the basis of all of our conflicts and world happenings, material/money/economic situations are the cause. Two things that will always be true: economy and conflict.
