Theories in sociology are abstract, general ideas that help organize and make sense of the social world Epistemology Philosophical Roots of Classical Sociological Theory Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) Suggested that people are responsible for creating the social world around them, and thus society could be changed through conscious reflection Was one of the first theorists to…
If good is to be rewarded and evil is to be punished, how do we define good and evil? Should we be obeying the law no matter what the content? What if the law itself is evil? The philosophers we will be looking at are a few of the influential thinkers of their day. Ancient,…
The settlers who came to the New World brought with them a great deal of baggage in the form of ideas and beliefs they had held dear in England. Indeed, many of them, such as the Puritans, came to America so they could live in stricter accord with those beliefs. The Pilgrims, a branch of…