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Sociological Perspective - influencing peoples life. The context in which stresses the lives of people.

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 of the 3 greatest modern thinkers

- Sigmund Freud & Albert Einstein

- Came from England exiled from native Germany for proposing revolution.

- Human history us class conflict. ( wealth capital land factories and machines.)

- Didn't consider himself a sociologist.