In the beginning, we were all animals. Not so much in bodily form, but in the ways we have acted in a society. Before ‘us’ as a whole race became modernized there was no law and order to what went on, it was just anarchy. No real ways to enforce. Once society became more civilized around the period of modernization, rules were put into place to keep an order on things. Having created manners and social norms, society began to become tamer.
With the creation of modernization there also came problems in the social infrastructure. Things like social norms began to affect the way that people acted. If someone was “out of line” they were taken away as to not infect the rest. Sociologists began to study the way people interact within society, and started hypothesizing about why people acted as they did. The idea of having progress forward was out of the picture before modernization, as no one really wanted to know how and why everything happened. Having religion never made anyone wonder why things went, it was all just explained to them through believing in an almighty holy power.
C Wright Mills looked at this as they were using their “sociological imagination” to view social problems. This was what Mills saw as using their own experiences, and relating them to the facts put before them. The sociological imagination was used to view all the problems of society from those of class inequalities to gender relations, or even economics. Everyone has their own imagination, even if they don’t realize it. When they start thinking for themselves and realize that they are a small part of a bigger picture, this is what is called the first fruit. This is when one can see issues arise in society such as racism, and they can clearly define what is put in front of them.
These sociologists looked into the growing world of capitalism, industrialization, and urbanism to see how all of this affected the way people lived their lives. The move from rural areas to more urban areas changed the way people interacted drastically. Moving from lots of space to very little space and having more interaction with others will change the way one views another. Also having industry come around in the 18th century changed communication for people, with devices like the steam engine and steam powered ships, making travel faster so it was more open to people.
Having these drastically easier ways, from what people are used to, of communication is a lot like what is happening in today’s society. Even though it’s not so much building ships and things that can carry people to talk to one another, it’s things like instant messaging and other electronic ways of communication. Having this instant way of talking has greatly increased many things and can be contributed to the fact of great expansion in many industries, but also in the decline of others. While this helps increase productivity and expansion, it also increases laziness and so then people will not venture forth into the world and seek face-to-face interaction. The ways of interaction is changing, as we can say about our ever-changing society. Modernization is just modernizing itself even more, pushing for even more change to the ways people live.
With the creation of modernization there also came problems in the social infrastructure. Things like social norms began to affect the way that people acted. If someone was “out of line” they were taken away as to not infect the rest. Sociologists began to study the way people interact within society, and started hypothesizing about why people acted as they did. The idea of having progress forward was out of the picture before modernization, as no one really wanted to know how and why everything happened. Having religion never made anyone wonder why things went, it was all just explained to them through believing in an almighty holy power.
C Wright Mills looked at this as they were using their “sociological imagination” to view social problems. This was what Mills saw as using their own experiences, and relating them to the facts put before them. The sociological imagination was used to view all the problems of society from those of class inequalities to gender relations, or even economics. Everyone has their own imagination, even if they don’t realize it. When they start thinking for themselves and realize that they are a small part of a bigger picture, this is what is called the first fruit. This is when one can see issues arise in society such as racism, and they can clearly define what is put in front of them.
These sociologists looked into the growing world of capitalism, industrialization, and urbanism to see how all of this affected the way people lived their lives. The move from rural areas to more urban areas changed the way people interacted drastically. Moving from lots of space to very little space and having more interaction with others will change the way one views another. Also having industry come around in the 18th century changed communication for people, with devices like the steam engine and steam powered ships, making travel faster so it was more open to people.
Having these drastically easier ways, from what people are used to, of communication is a lot like what is happening in today’s society. Even though it’s not so much building ships and things that can carry people to talk to one another, it’s things like instant messaging and other electronic ways of communication. Having this instant way of talking has greatly increased many things and can be contributed to the fact of great expansion in many industries, but also in the decline of others. While this helps increase productivity and expansion, it also increases laziness and so then people will not venture forth into the world and seek face-to-face interaction. The ways of interaction is changing, as we can say about our ever-changing society. Modernization is just modernizing itself even more, pushing for even more change to the ways people live.