BIOL 1002 Chapter : Chapter 41
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Sociology the scientific study of society, child of industrial revolution (1600-1800) 1700 the invention of the steam engine (powerful change) Industrial revolution advance: medical, biology, electricity, and radio waves (good/bad) 15-16 hour 6 days of the week shifts in bad conditions with unsafe water, diseases were some of the changes. How to fix the problems, science was gaining more. Age of reason was the era that brought radical thinking. Reign of terror (europe disease killed 2/3rds) and it was the rise of napolean. There was no natural laws, government is a man made correct. Auguste comte 1839 proposed a method to the study of society social physicks or sociologe . Similar laws governing with society and if they understood it they could fix it = motivation. Took a person"s knowledge to explain a person"s behavior. Evolution became prevalent and an atom evolves into a being. Society is just like a body each part of the society performs a function.
