Social Construction Of Reality
I. SOCIAL IMAGINATION
CONCEPTUALIZATION
According to C. W. Mills, “social imagination is an awareness of the relationship between a person’s behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped the person’s choices and perceptions. It’s a way of seeing our own and other people’s behavior in relationship to history and social structure (1959)” (OpenStax College, 2015, p.6). Sociological imagination is the ability to see individual behavior within the larger society and the impact of society over each individual’s private live. Therefore, personal troubles and public issues are very closely related.
Personal troubles are private problems that affect individuals and the networks of people with which they associate regularly. Personal troubles …show more content…
According to Thomas Theorem, people’s behaviors can be determined by their subjective construction of reality rather than by objective reality. In The Social Construction of Reality book, Berger and Luckmann also argued that society is created by humans and human interaction. Reality is not absolute and what we understand to be “real” is actually a social constructed idea. It means that reality is based on social agreement and we construct our own society and accept it as it is because others have created it before us (OpenStax College, 2015, p.91). That our perception of reality is basically shaped by our social and physical …show more content…
It refers to an individual’s social standing or a society’s categorization of its people into rankings of socioeconomic tiers based on factors like wealth, income, race, education, and power. Social stratification produces and maintains inequality, not individual inequalities, but about systematic or social inequalities. The structure of society affects a person's social standing (OpenStax College, 2015, p.187). The term social stratification is also used in the social sciences to describe the relative social position of persons in a given social
CONCEPTUALIZATION
According to C. W. Mills, “social imagination is an awareness of the relationship between a person’s behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped the person’s choices and perceptions. It’s a way of seeing our own and other people’s behavior in relationship to history and social structure (1959)” (OpenStax College, 2015, p.6). Sociological imagination is the ability to see individual behavior within the larger society and the impact of society over each individual’s private live. Therefore, personal troubles and public issues are very closely related.
Personal troubles are private problems that affect individuals and the networks of people with which they associate regularly. Personal troubles …show more content…
According to Thomas Theorem, people’s behaviors can be determined by their subjective construction of reality rather than by objective reality. In The Social Construction of Reality book, Berger and Luckmann also argued that society is created by humans and human interaction. Reality is not absolute and what we understand to be “real” is actually a social constructed idea. It means that reality is based on social agreement and we construct our own society and accept it as it is because others have created it before us (OpenStax College, 2015, p.91). That our perception of reality is basically shaped by our social and physical …show more content…
It refers to an individual’s social standing or a society’s categorization of its people into rankings of socioeconomic tiers based on factors like wealth, income, race, education, and power. Social stratification produces and maintains inequality, not individual inequalities, but about systematic or social inequalities. The structure of society affects a person's social standing (OpenStax College, 2015, p.187). The term social stratification is also used in the social sciences to describe the relative social position of persons in a given social