SOCL 2001 : Notes For Exam 1
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Sociology: sociology - a scientific study of human society, there are many aspects to sociology. So most sociologist only study one small piece. To reveal that which is hidden: the forces that are driving us to do things are hidden, and the point it to reveal the unknown/hidden. So if you wanted to understand society or why kings ruled or why bad/good things happened, it was because of gods plan: 2nd stage metaphysical stage human behavior governed by natural, biological instincts. Such as we have the biological need to have sex, so that is why we have family"s and the family structure comes to be: 3rd stage scientific stage develop a social physics to understand human behavior. There are social forces that are as strong a gravity. (that is what he thought: sociology cant explaine everything, harriet martineau first to translate comte"s works into english. They are the first people that teach you, feed, you support you.
