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Relevance of Enlightenment for Sociological Theories, Significance of…
Relevance of Enlightenment for Sociological Theories
The Relevance of enlightenment for sociological theories can be understood in two directions
First, how enlighement helped in
defining Sociology as a science?
The idea that sociology is a science has its roots in enligthenment's philosophy where social sciences are modelled on
newtonian science
which dominated the age of enligthenment
Second, how it helped in establishsin the fact that
society can be studied as an object
the establishment of the idea that society can be studied as an object led to the development of different
theoreicala perspectives
in Sociology
this also led to the development of
Empiricism
and
Positivism
which is at the core of Sociolgoical theories
The understanding that
society can be studied as an object is a product of enlightenmen
t during which the
traditional beliefs and authorities were challenged
enlgithement was based ont he belief that people can comprehend the social world and change it after studyhing the laws that govern the social world
Enlightenment's relevance of sociological theories can also be understood from the fact that enlightenment is an important event to understand the origin of sociology
To understand relevance of Enlightnement, we need to first understand what is Enlightbnement
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Significance of Enlightenment for Science
Enligthenment is called the age of reasons because of the prevalence of sicence, especially newtonian physics
Discuss the impact of enlightnement on Comte
The impact of enlightenment on Comte can be understood from the use of the term '
positivism
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'soccial phsycis
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he used the term social physical initially to name the discipline which reflects the impact of enlightenment
enlightbement is the age of s
cientific reasoning t
hat relies on
empiricism
Positivism is the term that Comte used against the enoigthement as he considered enlightenment as negative philosophy.