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Edupunk, Anarchogogy& Seminars

A Context for empowered creativity

Why do we study Social Theory?

What your lecturer is NOT going to do

Anarchogogy: New Possibilities

Break out of the Prison House of Traditional Educational instruction Get thinkingStart collaboratingRealise that your knowledge & creativityIdeas & Suggestions are equally as valid as the lecturerUse the resources & ideas that we offer to you; and, Nurture your skills to be able to Do It Yourself (DIY) - and become Edupunks

Drive?Absence?Creativity?Hope?

Use the freedom to come-up with your own ideas This approach is also referred to as students as producersSo, you need to begin to come together, work together, collaborate & create (using me for advice)

The origin and development of sociologySociology as an academic discipline emerged in the middle of the nineteenth century in EuropeThree factors led to the development of sociology 1.Enlightenment 2.Science 3.The Industrial Revolution

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The Success of Natural Science Isaac Newtons laws were able to explain the movement of everything visible in the universe (from planets to buildings)

It seemed logical to discover the scientific laws underlying all physical phenomena (physics)

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Auguste ComteAuguste Comte (1798-1857)

The new social science that Comte sought to establish was first called social physics but he coined the word sociology, a hybrid term compounded of Latin and Greek

(what are they?)

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Auguste Comte August Comtes philosophy based on his conclusion that human thought and action must grounded in facts and experience,

i.e., Information about which one can reasonably make positive (actual, observed) statements

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Positivism Seeks to describe only what obviously is, what one can really be positive about, that is, sense data.Evidence, which can be seen, measured, observed, proven A strict positivist, seeing a black sheep on a meadow could not say, There is a black sheep. He could only say, I see a sheep, one side of which is black.

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August Comte Comte hoped that sociologists would use scientific methods to gain knowledge of the social world

Then they would advise people about how life ought to be lived

This would then produce a scientific cure for social problems (and human ignorance)

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