Themes of Enlightenment and Anti-Enlightenment

Themes of Enlightenment and Anti-Enlightenment



Themes of Enlightenment and Anti-Enlightenment

Introduction

Sociology is the systematic study of human communities with particular emphasis on modern industrial formats. The field of sociology is very wide and sociologists studying all human relations, groups, institutions and societies, marriage, relationships, health and disease, crime and punishment. All of this falls within the field of sociology. In this paper you will learn how to gradually acquire the sociological imagination (social) In addition, you will learn about the emergence of sociology as an area of knowledge, theoretical frameworks and the basis of basic scientific research (Michel, 2007). In conclusion, we discuss how Sociology can help us in our public life.

The evolution of the social perspective

Explained American sociologist C. Raetz Mules social imagination is our ability to escape the circumstances of the individual and look at the social world in a new light. Sociology was born during the attempt to explain the social changes resulting from the industrial revolution and the social perspective will help us to understand this world and the future holds for us (Schmidt, 2000). The development of a comprehensive and global perspective indicates the great importance of sociology because it opens our eyes to the fact that the mutual dependence with other community's means that our actions have consequences on others and the world's problems affect us (Michel, 2007).

Enlightenment

The thought of the Enlightenment developed around two major themes: the return to nature, the pursuit of happiness. Philosophers denounced in religions and tyrannical powers of obscurantist forces responsible for the appearance of evil in a world where man should have been happy. So they rehabilitate human nature that is no longer tainted by original sin or blemish ontological they substitute in search of salvation in the Christian beyond the pursuit of happiness here ...