SOCY 122 Chapter Notes -Sociological Perspectives, Concrete Category, Mass In The Catholic Church

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Bloom-people lived in a world of chronic uncertainty, to escape, people must themselves. Only the liberally educated are properly prepared to address the challenges and other worthy alternative. To solve the problem people faced they must turn to culture. Fredrich nietzsche-questioned if modern man has found happiness-> everything is lost. Humanity has abandoned the desire for freedom and action. Culture is the solution to industrial society"s problems. Argues that humanity must rediscover its active and creative dionysian capacity. Follows johann wolfgang von goethe as a model of the free, highly educated, well-rounded, and self-affirming person to whom people should aspire. Raymond williams-reshapes how sociologists and other scholars thought about culture. General pattern of change serves as a map that makes it possible to examine the wider changers in life-> industry, democracy, class, art, and culture. Shift in meaning of culture from basic, material, and agricultural roots to its emerging and then dominant.