Similarities Between Seidman And The Enlighteners

Seidman argued “the Enlighteners… saw in the scientific worldview a triumph of reason over prejudice.” Seidman also states “the thinkers of enlightenment aimed both to understand human behavior and use science to promote freedom and progress.” (Seidman 12) Both these statements emphasizes the importance of the cience when it comes to study and understand society. During the enlightenment era sociologist had the scientific worldview and wanted to use the science to understand human behavior. Seidman also mentions about the prejudice and at the time religion was because people to be prejudice and he thinks scientific thinking might prevent religion to affect people’s thinking. I believe prejudice plays very important role of the way of people thinking and if scientific worldview can erase that affect a little bit but not completely because different people have different worldviews no matter what kind of method are being used when observing or doing research. For example if I and 10 more people conduct
Martineau’s main focus was the declaration of Independence which states “all men created equally” which she think anomalous to slavery and women inequality, and unequal wealth. Society has changed and some of the anomalies Martineau has argued definitely has changed in a good way but it is not completely gone. Slavery is completely gone but I think there is still voluntary slavery. Poor people still has jobs that no one else wants to have and they work in extreme conditions for the wealthy people. This is not slavery, no one forcing these people to perform the unwanted jobs but they have to do it in order to sustain their lives. Also, women and men are still not completely equal. For example men makes more money than women for the same