SOC 3312 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Meritocracy, Essentialism, Heterodoxy
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Civic privatism: people retreat from the world of political and they can"t understand the political issue that affect them. Help us to better see and focus on the connections or social relationships between the individual and society (social relations are real and affect us but they are hard to see for the most parts) They cannot cope with their personal troubles in such ways as to control the structural transformations that usually lie behind them . Problem 2: ours is a time of uneasiness and indifference but the problem is that this uneasiness and indifference is defined in very vague and imprecise terms . Instead of looking within the individual and human nature as the source and solution to unhappiness, problems. The uneasiness is based on individual troubles and the indifference is to the public issue that people feel they have no control to and morally insensible not sure with value that be cherished.