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The lack of a sociological imagination can make people apathetic. This apathy expresses itself as a lack of indignation in scenarios dealing with moral horror—the Holocaust is a classic example of what happens when a society renders itself to the power of a leader and doesn't use sociological imagination. Social apathy can lead to accepting ...
The imaginary (or social imaginary) is the set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols through which people imagine their social whole. It is common to the members of a particular social group and the corresponding society. The concept of the imaginary has attracted attention in anthropology, sociology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and media ...
The reason that the least well off member gets benefited is that it is argued that under the veil of ignorance people will act as if they were risk-averse. The original position is a unique and irrevocable choice about all the most important social goods, and they do not know the probability they will become any particular member of society.
Apparently, "common knowledge" isn't as widespread as you'd think. The post 50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults first appeared on Bored Panda.
Anderson depicts a nation as a socially-constructed community, imagined by the people who perceive themselves as part of a group. [ 1 ] : 6–7 Anderson focuses on the way media creates imagined communities, especially the power of print media in shaping an individual's social psyche.
A few years later I started following politics where, I noticed, self-confident people sat in esteemed places making majestic speeches full of lofty arguments reduced to snappy sound bites. That ...
Latimer advises people to follow the statement with, "I would like us to work on our relationship, and I would prefer you stop commenting on my food choices altogether." 5.
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (1966), by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, proposes that social groups and individual persons who interact with each other, within a system of social classes, over time create concepts (mental representations) of the actions of each other, and that people become habituated to those concepts, and thus assume ...