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is the systematic study of the relationship between individuals and society.
Ex. A way of looking at the world. |
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is to see and understand the connection between individuals and the broader social contexts in which they live.
Ex. Identity and Social Environment. |
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| This would be your race, ethnicity, class, gender, and nationality. |
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| Environment where you live. This would include your family, neighborhood, country, culture, and historical period. |
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(Wright Mills)
Enables us to grasp history and biograghy and the relations between the 2 with in a society.
Our individual condition (biography) depends upon larger forces in society (history.) |
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| distinguishes the social sciences from the natural sciences, which focus on the physical aspects of nature. |
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| characterized by the growth of democracy and personal freedom, increased reliance on reason and science to explain the natural and social worlds, and a shift toward an urban industrial economy. |
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| uses logic and the systematic collection of evidence to support knowledge claims. |
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| 18th century intellectual movement that combined a belief in individual freedom and respect for individual rights with the calculated logic of the natural sciences. |
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| A collection of major devlopments that transformed rural agricultural societies into urban industrial societies. (19th century) |
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| The use of large-scale machinery for the mass manufacture of consumer goods. |
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| A way of life that depends on the purchase and use of commercial goods and services. |
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| An economic system in which the machinery used for production is owned privately, workers are paid a wage, and markets facilitate the exchange of goods and services. |
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| A belief that accurate knowledge must be based on the scientific method, enabled a deeper understanding of human life and was the key to solving persistent social problems. |
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(Durkheim)
The collective bonds that connect individuals. |
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| In which people specialize in different tasks, each requiring specific skills. |
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| Shared values of a society. |
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| Normlessness, without moral guidance. |
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| Rationlization of Society |
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| The long-term historical process by which rationality replaced tradition as the basis for organizing social and economic life. |
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