SOCY 122 Chapter Notes -System On A Chip, Consumerism, Sexual Repression

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Mills presented 3 questions to help think in sociological terms. What is termed as the structure of society. Second set moves sociological analysis away from a solid, fixed permanent social structure, instead move toward awareness of the historical and changing social relations and relationships. Lastly, sociologists must integrate human agency into their analysis. These 3 sets of questions bring together social structure, history, and human agents (personal biography) Sociologists must consider all 3 and how they interact with each other. Also consider issues of social change, power, stability. People have a place in the hierarchy but they can be replaced. Parallel their economic and social worlds to teach them acceptance, feel helpless and frustrated by impersonal forces acting upon them. The white collared man is the hero and the victim, works unnoticed and directed by a boss, never speaking aloud, always unheard. White collared people wanted to escape the slow misery of striving to inch up organizational hierarchy.

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