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The Science Revolution, which begun with__________, refers historical changes in thought and beliefs to changes in social and intitutional organization, that unfolded in Europe roughly between 1550 and 1700.

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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It culminated in the works of __________,which proposed universal law of motion and mechanical model in the universe.

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Sir Isaac Newton

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Who established the supremacy of reason over the imagination.

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Sir Francis Bacon

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They laid the foundation that allowed science and technology to change the world.

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Rene Descartes and Newton

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He was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who is considered the father of the modern philosophy.

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Rene Descartes

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The discovery of gravity, mathematization of physics and astronomy paved the way for the dominance of science and mathematics in describing and explaning the world and its nature.

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Newton

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He earlier claimed that the book called the universe is written in the mathematical language.

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Galileo

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The Protestant movement led by__________. He eroded the power of the Roman Catholic Church. It challenge the infallibility of the Pope and democritized the interpretation of the Bible.

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Marthin Luther

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In the Age of Enlightenment, philosophers, led by___________, challenged the use of metaphysics or quotes for absolute truth derived mainly from theological traditions.

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Immanuel Kant

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He advocated the use of reason in order to know the nature of the world and human beings

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Immanuel Kant

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On what year, Kant wrote his famous essay “What is Enlightenment?”

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Year 1784

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Kant defined the enlightenment as______?

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courage to know

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He is one of the leading figures of modern sociology, described this process as rationalization.

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Max Weber

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He is the pioneer of interpretive sociology.

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Max Weber

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_______means that soical life is more subjected to calculation and prediction.

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Rationalization

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It can only be achieved it human beings and society rely on regularities established by modern science.

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Calculation and prediction

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The discoveries of the germ theory and development of vaccination, people relied more on medical knowledge to deals with the diseases.

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Louis Pasteur

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One of the founding “fathers” of sociology, for instance, lectured on the need to secularize education…..

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Durkheim

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He is a French sociologist made professionalization of sociology possible by teaching it in the University of Bardeaux.

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Emile Durkheim

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He is the pioneer of functionalism in sociology.

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Emile Durkheim

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He pointed out, science triumphed because it provided reliable results.

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Francois Lyotard

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He is a German sociologist and a contemporary of Weber, lamented the passing way of gemeinschaft or community because of urbanization.

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Ferdinand Tonnies

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Tonnies classic book, showed how modern way of life drastically change the way of people relate to one another.

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Community and Society (1957)

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Recored the travels of Marco Polo.

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Livres des Merveilles du Monde

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An Italian merchant from Venice.

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Marco Polo

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A historian, believed that this is one of the major factors in the large-scale change in European history……

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Charles Tilly

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A British political economist and sociologist, social scientist shifted their attention to the non-western world as a model of the early stage of Western civilization.

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Harriet Martineau

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An English writer and reformist, it considered as the “founding mother of sociology”

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Harriet Martineau

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She wrote the political economy and influenced by J.S Miller, David Ricardo, Adam Smith.

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Harriet Martineau

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She is a writer, ethnographer, political economist, sociologist. She is considered as the “mother of sociology”.

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Harriet Martineau

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He is a German sociologist in the early 20th century, to decry the growing depersonalization of life due to the introduction of money.

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George Simmel

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A German sociologist who characterized the modern period as the “tragedy of culture”

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George Simmel

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A French philosopher and mathematician. He coined the term “sociology” but originally used “social physics” as a term for it.

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Augustes Comte

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He is considered as the “father of sociology”

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Isidore Auguste Mare Francois Xavier Comte

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He is considered as the “father of scientific socialism”

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Karl Max

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It is a branch of social sciences that deals with the scientific study for human interactions, social groups, and institutions, whole societies, and the human world as such.

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Sociology

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Comte suggested three (3) stages in the development of societies

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  1. The theological stage
  2. The metaphysical stage
  3. The positive stage
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As a scientic discipline, originated from social philosophy and travelogous of western travelers.

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Anthropology

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According to__________“anthropolohy merged as distinct branch of scholarship around the midle of nineteenth century, which public interest in human evolution took hold.

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Allan Barnard (2004)

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Four (4) Great Anthropolist helped formalize and advance anthropology as a discipline.

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  1. Franz Boas
  2. Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski
  3. Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown
  4. Marcel Mauss
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He is considered the “father of American Anthropology”. He the first anthropologist to have rejected the biological basis of racism or racial discrimination.

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Franz Boas

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He was an Anthropologist and Ethonographer.

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Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski

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He is considered as the one of the most influencial ethnographers in the 20th century.

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Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski

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It is the practice of writing about people.

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Ethonography

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He was an English social anthropologist who develop the theory of structural functionalism.

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Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown

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On what year Alfred Reginal Radcliffe-Brown became a Chair in Social Anthropologist in Oxford.

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Year 1937

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It is a part of the social science that deals with the study of politics, power, and goverment.

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Political Science

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He was a newspaper commentator and respected world news columnist.

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Walter Lippmann

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