The second enlightenment of man
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As technology advanced and the world became more connected, the way people formed social groups changed over time. Originally, people clustered into "geographical tribes" based on their physical location, as this dictated the shared norms and objective reality of that group. Later, as mobility increased, people began forming "sociographical tribes" around shared social classes and interests, allowing for some choice in social identity. Now, with global connectivity, people can form "psychographical tribes" based solely on personal beliefs and affinities, rejecting imposed identities. This empowerment of individual identity and ability to connect with others worldwide on that basis represents the final stage in humanity's social evolution.
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Chapter One: The Promise
C. Wright Mills (1959)
Nowadays people often feel that their private lives are a series of traps. They sense that within
their everyday worlds, they cannot overcome their troubles, and in this feeling, they are often
quite correct. What ordinary people are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by
the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited to the close-up
scenes of job, family, neighborhood; in other milieux, they move vicariously and remain
spectators. And the more aware they become, however vaguely, of ambitions and of threats
which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.
Underlying this sense of being trapped are seemingly impersonal changes in the very structure of
continent-wide societies. The facts of contemporary history are also facts about the success and
the failure of individual men and women. When a society is industrialized, a peasant becomes a
worker; a feudal lord is liquidated or becomes a businessman. When classes rise or fall, a person
is employed or unemployed; when the rate of investment goes up or down, a person takes new
heart or goes broke. When wars happen, an insurance salesperson becomes a rocket launcher; a
store clerk, a radar operator; a wife or husband lives alone; a child grows up without a parent.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without
understanding both.
Yet people do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and
institutional contradiction. The well-being they enjoy, they do not usually impute to the big ups
and downs of the societies in which they live. Seldom aware of the intricate connection between
the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually
know what this connection means for the kinds of people they are becoming and for the kinds of
history-making in which they might take part. They do not possess the quality of mind essential
to grasp the interplay of individuals and society, of biography and history, of self and world.
They cannot cope with their personal troubles in such ways as to control the structural
transformations that usually lie behind them.
Surely it is no wonder. In what period have so many people been so totally exposed at so fast a
pace to such earthquakes of change? That Americans have not known such catastrophic changes
as have the men and women of other societies is due to historical facts that are now quickly
becoming 'merely history.' The history that now affects every individual is world history. Within
this scene and this period, in the course of a single generation, one sixth of humankind is
transformed from all that is feudal and backward into all that is modern, advanced, and fearful.
Political colonies are freed; new and less visible forms of imperialism installed. Re.
The Sociological Imagination Chapter One The Promise C..docx
The Sociological Imagination
Chapter One: The Promise
C. Wright Mills (1959)
Nowadays people often feel that their private lives are a series of traps. They sense that within
their everyday worlds, they cannot overcome their troubles, and in this feeling, they are often
quite correct. What ordinary people are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by
the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited to the close-up
scenes of job, family, neighborhood; in other milieux, they move vicariously and remain
spectators. And the more aware they become, however vaguely, of ambitions and of threats
which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.
Underlying this sense of being trapped are seemingly impersonal changes in the very structure of
continent-wide societies. The facts of contemporary history are also facts about the success and
the failure of individual men and women. When a society is industrialized, a peasant becomes a
worker; a feudal lord is liquidated or becomes a businessman. When classes rise or fall, a person
is employed or unemployed; when the rate of investment goes up or down, a person takes new
heart or goes broke. When wars happen, an insurance salesperson becomes a rocket launcher; a
store clerk, a radar operator; a wife or husband lives alone; a child grows up without a parent.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without
understanding both.
Yet people do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and
institutional contradiction. The well-being they enjoy, they do not usually impute to the big ups
and downs of the societies in which they live. Seldom aware of the intricate connection between
the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually
know what this connection means for the kinds of people they are becoming and for the kinds of
history-making in which they might take part. They do not possess the quality of mind essential
to grasp the interplay of individuals and society, of biography and history, of self and world.
They cannot cope with their personal troubles in such ways as to control the structural
transformations that usually lie behind them.
Surely it is no wonder. In what period have so many people been so totally exposed at so fast a
pace to such earthquakes of change? That Americans have not known such catastrophic changes
as have the men and women of other societies is due to historical facts that are now quickly
becoming 'merely history.' The history that now affects every individual is world history. Within
this scene and this period, in the course of a single generation, one sixth of humankind is
transformed from all that is feudal and backward into all that is modern, advanced, and fearful.
Political colonies are freed; new and less visible forms of imperialism installed. Re.
C.Wright Mills, ‘The Sociological Imagination” From Edwin Lemert,
C.Wright Mills, ‘The Sociological Imagination” From Edwin Lemert, Editor, Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classical Readings, page 378-382.
The Sociological Imagination [Wright Mills (1959)]
The sociological imagination enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals. It enables him to take into account how individuals, in the welter of their daily experience, often become falsely conscious of their social positions. Within that welter, the framework of modern society is sought, and within that framework the psychologies of a variety of men and women are formulated. By such means the personal uneasiness of individuals is focused upon explicit troubles and the indifference of publics is transformed into involvement with public issues.
The first fruit of this imagination-and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it-is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances. In many ways it is a terrible lesson; in many ways a magnificent one. We do not know the limits of man's capacities for supreme effort or willing degradation, for agony or glee, for pleasurable brutality or the sweetness of reason. But in our time we have come to know that the limits of 'human nature' are frighteningly broad. We have come to know that every individual lives, from one generation to the next, in some society; that he lives out a biography, and that he lives it out within some historical sequence. By the fact of his living he contributes, however minutely, to the shaping of this society and to the course of its history, even as he is made by society and by its historical push and shove.
The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. That is its task and its promise. To recognize this task and this promise is the mark of the classic social analyst. It is characteristic of Herbert Spencer-turgid, polysyllabic, comprehensive; of E. A. Ross-graceful, muckraking, upright; of Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim; of the intricate and subtle Karl Mannheim. It is the quality of all that is intellectually excellent in Karl Marx; it is the clue to Thorstein Veblen's brilliant and ironic insight, to Joseph Schumpeter's many-sided constructions of reality; it is the basis of the psychological sweep of W.E.H. Lecky no less than of the profundity and clarity of Max Weber. And it is the signal of what is best in contemporary studies of man and society.
No social study that does not come back to the problems of biography, of history and of their intersections within a society has completed its intellectual journey. Whatever the specific problems of the classic social analysts, however limite ...
C. Wright Mills, The Promise [of Sociology]” Excerpt from
C. Wright Mills, “The Promise [of Sociology]”
Excerpt from The Sociological Imagination (originally published in 1959)
This classic statement of the basic ingredients of the "sociological imagination” retains its vitality and
relevance today and remains one of the most influential statements of what sociology is all about. In reading,
focus on Mills' distinction between history and biography and between individual troubles and public issues.
Nowadays men often feel that their private lives are a series of traps. They sense that within their everyday
worlds, they cannot overcome their troubles, and in this feeling, they are often quite correct: What ordinary
men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their
visions and their powers are limited to the close-up scenes of job, family, neighborhood; in other milieux, they
move vicariously and remain spectators. And the more aware they become, however vaguely, of ambitions and
of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.
Underlying this sense of being trapped are seemingly impersonal changes in the very structure of continent-
wide societies. The facts of contemporary history are also facts about the success and the failure of individual
men and women. When a society is industrialized, a peasant becomes a worker; a feudal lord is liquidated or
becomes a businessman. When classes rise or fall, a man is employed or unemployed; when the rate of
investment goes up or down, a man takes new heart or goes broke. When wars happen, an insurance salesman
becomes a rocket launcher; a store clerk, a radar man; a wife lives alone; a child grows up without a father.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
Yet men do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and institutional
contradiction. The well-being they enjoy, they do not usually impute to the big ups and downs of the societies
in which they live. Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the
course of world history, ordinary men do not usually know what this connection means for the kinds of men
they are becoming and for the kinds of history-making in which they might take part. They do not possess the
quality of mind essential to grasp the interplay of man and society, of biography and history, of self and world.
They cannot cope with their personal troubles in such ways as to control the structural transformations that
usually lie behind them.
Surely it is no wonder. In what period have so many men been so totally exposed at so fast a pace to such
earthquakes of change? That Americans have not known such catastrophic changes as have the men and
women of other societies is due to historical facts that are now quickly becoming "merely history." The hi ...
PERSPECTIVE OF ANTHROPOLOGY SOCIOLOGY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE.pptx
This document outlines key perspectives and theoretical approaches in anthropology, sociology, and political science. It discusses anthropological perspectives like cultural relativism, human diversity, holism, and bio-cultural focus. Sociological perspectives examined include functionalist, conflict, and symbolic interaction. Theoretical approaches covered are functionalism, symbolic interactionism, and conflict theory. Political science is defined as studying tendencies and actions not easily quantified, focused on politics and decisions affecting groups.
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Essay
The Evolution of a Cosmopolitan Identity:
Transforming Culture
Shannan Spisak
Institute of International Education
This essay examines the evolution of cosmopolitanism in relation to the individual and the broader
scope of society. Cosmopolitanism seeks to affect changes in cultural norms through the cultivation
of self-awareness, identity, empowerment, and agency. Coupled with education, these powerful tools
contribute to shaping a global society. Examining identity through the lens of gender roles and
patriotism, it becomes evident that identity can be fluid, and cosmopolitan values can be universally
applied. Cosmopolitanism transforms individual identity that, by extension, has the potential to
transform the cultures and societies in which individuals participate.
A core value of cosmopolitanism is that all humans have equal worth. The recognition of equality of the other begins through one’s development of self-awareness and acknowledgement of
self-worth. From here, humans can influence and shape not only their personal identities but
also, in extension, the identities of their cultures and societies. After all, from where do beliefs,
traditions, and values originate if not from human nature, imagination, and construction?
According to David Hansen (2008), “social change and, in particular, social improvement are
inconceivable without individual response, imagination, and action” (p. 21). In agreement with
Hansen’s assessment, this essay illustrates how a combination of self-awareness, education,
empowerment, and agency provides a framework for the evolution of identity and social change.
Cosmopolitanism indicates “a way of being in the world, a way of constructing an identity for
oneself that is different from, and arguably opposed to, the idea of belonging to or devotion to or
immersion in a particular culture.” (Waldron, 2000, p. 1). A cosmopolitan sensibility reflects an
emotional or spiritual process of evolution. Viewed as transformational practice, cosmopolitanism
appreciates identity and culture as fluid concepts. Such fluidity creates power to transform the
relationship between the self and other and leads to the potential to affect change within the
broader scope of society.
Self-awareness proves a challenge to cultivate but is a primary component in the evolution of
an inclusive perspective. It is linked to self-identity, and together these concepts illustrate the
process of becoming or being cosmopolitan. An assumption made about self-identity is that it is
a static label or defined description of an individual. Jason Hill (2000) raises concerns about the
idea of a fixed identity:
The contemporary self is to a large extent mired within racial and ethnic paradigms
that define it exclusively in such t.
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The movie The Invention of Lying explores social class through a world where lying does not exist. When down-on-his-luck writer Mark develops the ability to lie, he uses it to rise to fame, fortune, and the heart of the woman he loves. However, when Mark lies to comfort his dying mother by inventing the concept of heaven, religion, and an afterlife, it threatens the existing social order and scripts. The film examines how social class shapes identity and opportunities in society through ascribed and achieved statuses.
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