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SOCIAL THEORY OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
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UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND SCHOOL OF HEALTH, NATURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES SOC201 SOCIAL THEORY OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY MODULE LEADER: PETER RUSHTON ASSIGNMENT 1: CRITICAL REVIEW STUDENT: JENNIFER GARTLAND STUDENT ID: 032805136 Extract from, Hall. S and Gieben. B eds (1992), Formations of Modernity, Cambridge, Polity Press/Open University Press, pp. 36-45 Title, Enlightenment as the Pursuit of Modernity. This extract attempts to explain the rise of the Enlightenment beginning from the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. It shows how the beliefs and writings of this time gave rise to a new science the 'science of man' and that 'sociological' concerns are identified in this time (Hall and Gieben 1992, p. 36). The Enlightenment can be described as, 'an eighteenth century philosophical movement based on notions of progress through the application of reason and rationality. Enlightenment philosophers foresaw a world free from religious dogma, under human control and leading ultimately to emancipation fro all human kind' (Bilton et al. 2002, p.25)....
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