Other People Flashcards
Descartes
- eliminate knowledge based on prejudice, tradition or religious precepts, start at a fundamental basis
- discourse on method
- radical doubt; accept nothing, divide questions into simplest parts, begin with smallest part and link back to greatest, review thoroughly.
- rationalist, not experimentalist
Montesquieu
- wanted to eliminate privilege
- importance of observation in determining good government
- broke things into constituent parts and put back together
- holism; whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Saint-Simon
- explores science, applies scientific method to social organization in 1814
- focuses on the industrializing of society
- producers (feudal serfs), ruling elite (nobility) and spiritual elite (church)
- focused on industrialization and economy as key element in social analysis
Auguste Comte
- named sociology
- aimed to enshrine positivism as supreme method for all knowledge, including sociology
- 1) theological phase (feudalism), 2) metaphysical (enlightenment) 3) positive (scientific revolution)
Nietzsche
humanity has a tendency to be lazy
Raymond Williams
argues the general pattern of change in those words serves as a special kind of map that makes it possible to examine the wider changes in life and thought to which the changes in language evidently refer
Leavis and Thompson
concerned with the demise of English literary culture
Hoggart
carried culture will be lost in the levelling down of the market as it appeals to the greatest mass of consumers
Adorno, Horkheimer and Marcuse
The entertainment industry is the vehicle of mass deception
Postman
focused on television
Gabler
entertainment has become the universe within which all media exerts their influence
Huxleyan
state controls through pleasure and entertainment
Orwell
Culture becomes a prison
