THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF SOCIETY Flashcards
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Jean and Gehard Lensky
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SOCIO-CULTURAL EVOLUTION THEORY
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Who is behind SOCIO-CULTURAL EVOLUTION THEORY
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Jean and Gehard Lensky
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- SOCIO-CULTURAL EVOLUTION THEORY
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- social change is primarily the
result of technology - historically, technological advancement has generated greater social inequality
- the more complex the technology is that a person can have access to, leads to a greater
chance of acquiring higher status - technology becomes the basis in creating
the standard of norms and values of the society such as the concept of what happiness
and success is.
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- SOCIO-CULTURAL EVOLUTION THEORY
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- social change is primarily the
result of technology - historically, technological advancement has generated greater social inequality
- the more complex the technology is that a person can have access to, leads to a greater
chance of acquiring higher status
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- SOCIO-CULTURAL EVOLUTION THEORY
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- technology becomes the basis in creating
the standard of norms and values of the society such as the concept of what happiness
and success is. - due to the development of technology into a more complex one, it also played a
significant role on the way humans perceived the world - such perception would affect the
way humans relate themselves to other members of the society and the world as a whole.
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Karl Marx
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SOCIAL CONFLICT ANALYSIS
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Who is person behind SOCIAL CONFLICT ANALYSIS
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Karl Marx
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- SOCIAL CONFLICT ANALYSIS
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- Marx understood society in terms of inequality and social conflict between classes, which
are defined by their relation to the process of producing material goods.
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Origin of SOCIAL CONFLICT ANALYSIS
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- George Hegel
- society as a product of two opposing forces, the thesis and the anti-thesis
- this phenomenon identifies change as inevitable, hence, subjecting the society to evolve from simple to a more complex one
- Marx made the analysis into a concrete one by substituting the two opposing forces, a conflict and struggle for power between the strong and the weak
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History of SOCIAL CONFLICT ANALYSIS
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- Ancient society: masters and slaves
- Medieval period: lords and serfs
- Industrial revolution: capitalist and proletariat
- Present day: upper and the lower class
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- SOCIAL CONFLICT ANALYSIS
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- The upper class would use the institutions in the society in order to maintain their
dominance in the society over the lower class. - For the said objective be realized, false consciousness is injected in the
minds of the lower class through the said institutions which weakens the said class. - This social virus subjects the minds of the lower class to experience inferiority complex which
makes them weak and loss their ability to struggle to improve their condition of their lives.
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5 institutions in the society
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family
school
state
church
mass media
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- SOCIAL CONFLICT ANALYSIS
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- The only means for the lower class to eradicate false consciousness is through class consciousness.
- The belief that life among the masses is a process of struggle with the dominant forces of the society which is under the control of the upper class.
- The only means in order to alleviate their condition is to change their view of the world,
asserting that it is the individual who controls his fate and destiny, not the society who is
under the influence of a dominant class.
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Who is behind RATIONALIZATION OF SOCIETY
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Max Weber
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Max Weber
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RATIONALIZATION OF SOCIETY
