SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: George Padmore, Mary Wollstonecraft, Frantz Fanon
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Theory: a statement that tries to explain how certain facts or variables are related in order to predict future events. People are responsible for creating the social world around them and that society could be changed through conscious reflection. Hobbes was one of the first theorists to view people as responsible and accountable for the society they created. Hobbes is also well known for his analysis of how humans existed before the emergence of formal social structures (natural state) Individuals are are the basic building blocks of society. Argued that god was responsible for the emergence of society and government. People a(cid:396)e (cid:271)o(cid:396)(cid:374) (cid:862)ta(cid:271)ula (cid:396)asa(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:271)la(cid:374)k slate(cid:895) suggesting that there can be no knowledge independent of experience. Believed that god granted certain rights to people this belief helped locke secure his belief in the sanctity of individual autonomy (a point of agreement with hobbes)
