The Marxist (Socio-Economic) Lens is based on the theories of philosophers & economists, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engles. It says that a society is made up of a set of concepts, beliefs, values, & ways of thinking that are influenced by that society’s economic & class structures. Critical lenses serve to showcase another person’s perspective & background in life. By using & understanding lenses, we can come to understand where someone else is coming from & better meet in the middle in discussions & debates. Even if we don’t agree with the other person’s perspective or ideas, we have a better understanding of them which reduces misinformation & encourages disagreements to be talked out civilly.
When a woman chooses to keep her baby, it may not be her decision; it may be her moral duty to the society influenced by her family’s pressure and religious belief. However, if she considers the broad social factors that will shape and influence her views, and that will allow her to make individual choices such as whether to keep her baby or not, she is applying what C. Wright Mills’ called the Social Imagination. James Henslin (2013) stated that C. Wright Mills’s sociological imagination gives us the ability “to understand how our personal troubles (the problems we experience) are connected to the broader conditions of our society” (p. 2). It allows us to question the “norms” and gives us the ability to see things from different perspectives
Through sociological perspective, we can view the society by the way it was set up and how it affects us. This paper consists of four different points or section that I saw in the movie that displays social issues and can be compared on how society works in real life. The first section in this paper discusses about the controlling administration which countenances the actions of a person. The second section which is euthanasia shows a system of emitting life when a society observed a single person as functionless. The third section explains how a family became a part of impersonal social group.
Culture Theory: Social movements depend not only on resources but of the cultural symbols, People are drawn to a social movement by the cultural symbols that define the cause as just, which motivates them. Resource-Mobilization Theory: Social movements would not be able to succeed without the available resources such as money, labor, and the mass media Structural-Strain Theory: People join together because of their mutual concern of the inability a society is to operate as they believe it should be. Political-Economy Theory: When capitalist economic systems fail to meet the necessary needs, for the majority of people such as healthcare, unemployment, and poverty, social movements arise. New Social Movement Theory: People who join social movements are motivated by quality of life issues not necessarily economic concerns Mobilization is national scope, new social movements arise in response to the expansion of mass media and new
Sociologists analyze social phenomena at different levels using different perspectives. Sociologists study everything—from the micro level of analysis of small social patterns to the macro level analysis of large social patterns. Sociological perspective includes three (3) approaches: The Symbolic Interactionism which involves the micro level of analysis using symbols and face to face interactions; the Functionalism perspective which involves the macro level of analysis and gives emphasis on the relationship between parts of society and how the aspects of the society becomes functional; and the Conflict Theory using the macro level of analysis which focuses on the competition for scarce resources and how elites control the poor and weak (“Three Major Perspectives in Sociology,” 2015). With the given differences, Weber can be closely related to being a ‘Conflict Structuralist’. In Weber’s perspective that his sociological analysis focused as to how people’s relationship influence people’s behavior.
Individuals within society are influenced by the socio-economic factors of the society which they inhabit. This essay will discuss Sociological imagination which was first mentioned by author C.W. Mills who wrote a book with the same title. The personal problem that will be discussed is childhood trauma, because it is broad this essay will focus more on depression and how it effects society on a larger scale. Lastly this essay will then show the advantages of using Social Imagination in our everyday life’s and how we can use it to the benefit of society on a wider scale. Social Imagination is the concept of being able to differentiate a personal problem from a problem that is affecting a wider society on a much larger scale.
1.1 Introduction In this essay I will be discussing the sociological imagination and the problems of families. The sociological imagination allows us to see the difference between personal problems and public issues and be able to link them. It basically allows a person to think outside of their personal perspectives and see beyond the outer appearance. 1.2
Greene and Lee (2002) states that when considering the social constructivist approach an understanding of the way individuals function within society is important to appreciate the meaning they ascribe to their experiences of society and culture. Dean (1993 suggests that knowledge and meaning are created and influenced by institutions within the environment. From this individual suffering from mental illness will create their reality and will then view future experiences through this (Dewees, 1999) As previously explored dominate members of society determine values, beliefs and norms that is supported and maintained by that society. Kondrat and Teater (2009) suggest that if individuals do not ascribe to these they are considered ‘abnormal’
One’s personal situation is linked to current history and the society they live in. The correlation between the two is called sociological imagination created by American sociologist C. Wright Mills in his essay, Sociological Imagination. In clarity, “neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both” (Mills 1). In order to develop such skills, you must be able to free yourself from one context and look at things in a different point of view. He argued that one of the main tasks of sociology was to transform personal problems into public and political issues or vice versa.
Critical Theory and Systems Theory Critical theory is the method of inquiry in philosophy that radically questions existing social, political and economic systems. The aim is the total emancipation (empowerment) of each and every human being from all forms of oppression. Critical theorists tend to be philosophers who have been “hurt’’ by the system, or have seen other people ‘’hurt” by the system. Critical theorists believe that all forms of power are oppressive.
The book ‘Classical Sociological Theory; Rediscovering the Promise of Sociology’ by Glen Goodwin and Joseph Scimecca, covers the beginning of the sociology field (Goodwin and Scimecca, 2005). The three main theories of conflict perspective, functionalism and symbolic interactionism beginning have all been developed in the book. After the author’s identify the social philosophy emergence, the book then follows a pattern where every chapter is devoted to a major theorists as well as their work. The theories in this case have been placed in an intellectual and social context. Hegel’s discovery of dialectic gave rise to German sociology.
When I first began this Intro to Sociology class, I was one of those people the book mentioned who believed that sociology was just “common sense” (p. 31). However, I have come to understand sociological mindfulness as more than just being aware of the world around us. Sociological mindfulness is looking past the everyday stereotypes, prejudices, and human-made categories to truly see how everything is connected on multiple levels (p. 3). From taking this course, I have learned that society is a social construct based on widely accepted human ideals (p. 16).
Question A Marxist Perspective Its central aim is to provide an empirically well-founded description of phenomenon, to get the social implications; and to illuminate the historical process through which this phenomenon came to exist in the real world. Additionally, its aims at comprehend and explain reality using themes to make analysis and this is confirmed by research. This has methods such as phenomenology and Ethnomethodology. It produces knowledge on a social reality in order to transform it.
Sociological criticism broadens the horizon in the study of the New Testament. Though it is a relatively newer method, its significant influence and contributions encourage former methods. It is a component or rather acts as an enhancement to historical critical methods. This method had emerged as a pragmatic methodological enterprise. Since 1970 the use of the social sciences has played an increasingly prominent role in Gospel studies.
Ideology and the New Social Movements Context of the Book Alan Scott, the writer of this book, tries to contextualize his writing when there was too much emphasis on the broad sociological theory like functionalism and Marxism. There was one approach to understand the social movement within the framework of Marxism, which seeks on the material well-being. He criticizes the macro sociological theories of social movement, and tries to build the middle range theory to interpret the social movement in general and new social movement theory in particular. Further contextualizing the book, he says that there is double bounding between sociology and social movement. Going ahead he makes the argument that sociology’s concerns with interpreting contemporary
