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Rise of Sociology
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Sociology
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07/06/2011

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Classical sociological theory
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social theory as a response to the rise of society
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The Enlightenment
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moral philosophy accompanied the rise of natural theology, age of reason, rationality of reason, social criticism and administrative social science, modernity triumphant over tradition, science over religion
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Immanuel Kant
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ahistorical and universal categories of the mind, that experience has to be organized so it is intelligible: causality, etc.
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Social evolutionism
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the transformation of society, how it changes/grows etc. - society is something that is essentially communicative and undergoes an evolution of its own
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The problems of Modernity
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the socialization of the individual, the rationality of knowledge, and the legitimation of power
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Global difference
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the difference between modern and primitive(nondeveloped) society --> other(the places that have not advanced yet) vs. metropole (cities, the colonies, modernized) --> the social evolution
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The sociological canon
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the foundational works/classical texts of sociology --> weber, durkheim, marx
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Ontology
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what kinds of things do or can exist in that domain and what are their conditions of existence, relations of dependency, etc. an inventory of whats included
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Epistemology
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the theory of knowledge - distinguishes justified belief from opinion.
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Positivism
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empiricism, scientific method, prediction = understanding, nomothetic laws, naturalism, value neutrality
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Hermeneutics
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doctrine of meaning, anti naturalism, ideographic knowledge (or specific detailed cases), understanding requires inter subjective meanings, science is social --> study of theory and practice of interpretation --> studying what the event means to individuals
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Critical Theory
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dialectical process of thought, in which the whole is greater than the parts, and contradictions continually appear and disappear into new synthesis
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Naturalism
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assumes soc. Sciences can be studied in the same ways as the physical sciences and in fact the soc sciences should mimic the physical sciences as much as possible
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Nomothetic Laws
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laws that could be applied throughout history, laws that allows us to make generalizations about phenomenon
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Ideographic Knowledge
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history consists of idiographic events in the sense of being unique/non repeatable, individualist
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Empiricism
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our senses are unmediated - the epistemology accepted by positivism
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