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...Society a group of people who are a culture and territory.
Social location corners in life that people occupy because where they are located in a society.
C. Wright Mills
Sociological imagination enables us to grasp the connection between
- History society is located in a broad stream of events
- Biography individual's specific experiences
Internal & external influences.
( instincts ) / experiences.
Questions asked such as
- why wars exists
- how some are more powerful then others
- why some are rich while others are poor.
Based answers on
- myths
- superstitions
- positions of stars
- assuming
Science requires development of theories that can be tested by systematic research.
Sociology started in the middle on 1800's
Auguste Comte & Positivism
Positivism applying scientific method to the social world
Proposed from Auguste Comte. 1798-1857
- left land and moved to PARIS
- founder of sociology.
- He experienced and interested in what holds society together. (FRANCE)
- sociology (study of science)
- sociology to discover social principles
- applying it to social forms but not apply it himself.
- Reforming the society to make it a better place to live.
- Armchair Philosophy applying scientific method to social life something we practice.
- Drawing conclusions from informal observations of social life.
Hebert Spencer
- grew up in England
- second founder of sociology
- he disagreed with Comte about social reform
- No one should intervene with in the evolution of society.
- Lower = Barbarian
- Higher = Civilized
- Smartest = The fittest (produces a more advanced society)
- Survival of the fittest
- Also known views of evolution societies as SOCIAL DARWINISM.
- More of a social philosopher
Darwinism
- proposed that organisms evolve over time as they adapt to environment.
Karl Marx
- one...
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