SOC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Binomial Theorem, Heliocentrism, The Communist Manifesto
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Scientific study of interactions and relations among human beings. Sociology will never be irrelevant to your life present or future. If people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences. w. i. Ptolemy determined using geometry that earth was the center of the universe: church liked this over 1000 years later because of course god would put man"s planet at the center of the universe. In 1543 nicolaus copernicus from frauenberg in east prussia suggested in a book that the sun was the center of the universe. Venice: in 1609 found the telescope in venice, in 1610, galileo built his own telescope (3x the one he found in, found evidence to support heliocentricity, published a dialogue between ptolemy"s views (church) and the. Church said his book was heresy and made him live out his life in seclusion and he was unable to say anything else on the matter.
