What social forces lead to the Enlightenment? What is the significance of the Enlightenment to Social Theory?
Who were the Philosophs? What was their contribution to both the Enlightenment and to the birth of social theory?
How does truth vary in meaning from the 17th to 18th century? And what does Newton have to do with this it?
What does it mean to talk of the mind as a tabula rasa? Why was this idea radical?
Reason + observation & experimentation --> true knowledge...why is each alone insufficient?
What is meant by “negative” philosophies?
What three distinct blows did the French Revolution deliver to society history and politics?
How did Hegel’s actions lead to the development of an autonomous social theory (from philosophy)?
What role did industrial capitalism, mechanical innovation, and the development of the working class play in the development of social theory?
What does it mean to conceive of society as a set of structured fields external to the self? Why do you think this was such a radical thought on its time?
Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions. C. Wright Mills
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