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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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| 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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| ahistorical and universal categories of the mind, that experience has to be organized so it is intelligible: causality, etc. |
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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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| 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 foundational works/classical texts of sociology --> weber, durkheim, marx |
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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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| the theory of knowledge - distinguishes justified belief from opinion. |
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| empiricism, scientific method, prediction = understanding, nomothetic laws, naturalism, value neutrality |
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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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| 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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| 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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| laws that could be applied throughout history, laws that allows us to make generalizations about phenomenon |
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| history consists of idiographic events in the sense of being unique/non repeatable, individualist |
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| our senses are unmediated - the epistemology accepted by positivism |
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