David Weber

Question or obey? The word authority stands for the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience. In the persuasion world, that definition translates into three symbols: titles, clothing and trapping. Titles refers to r or Professor, clothing to a police uniform or an army greens and trapping to any object that the person owns. In this paper, I will provide four different examples of authority, when I used those symbols to have someone comply with me or when someone uses…

Liberalism, conservatism and socialism are different ideological families that include many concepts, ideas, and thoughts. Michael Freeden has came up with four features of ideologies which could be used to analysis these ideological families. These features are proximity, priority, permeability and proportionality. Each of them could explain some aspects of each ideological family. First of all, “proximity” means that the political concepts only make sense when they are within a particular…

As a whole the world itself is a series of “fates” or “destinies” that are inevitably intertwined, the acts of one man changing the acts of another. C.W Mills believed that in order to understand the way in which one person comes to be whom they are in this world, we must look at their life through the idea of sociological imagination. Which Mills describes as something that “enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the…

Rituals and Customs became necessary in the age of decline, when people no longer embodies the Way and its Potency. Disorder and chaos arise as a result of the diversity in people and things when they are no longer unified in the Way and its Potency. Rituals and customs are implemented as tools to aid the ruler in creating order and harmony in the society again. Chapter 11 explores the origins of rituals and what kind of techniques current sage rulers should employ in establishing rituals such…

Charles Wright Mills was an American sociologist. He was best known for his theories and the way he defined sociological imagination. Sociological Imagination is the vivid awareness of the relationships between personal experience and the wider society. When you think about the two words, “Sociological” you think of the study of humans social behavior and the way they react to different things around them. “Imagination” is thinking about things in your own point of view. So when you put the two…

By studying the aspects that influence the structure of the family, it becomes evident that the term family is interpreted differently based on the varying social stratifications that is experienced by the individual. The social stratifications of gender/sex, race/ethnicity, social class, and age are important in their ability to analyze the family structure. These factors impact the experiences of the minority groups of Hispanics, Muslims, and Asians in the United States. By comparing and…

SOC10020 Name: Danielle Archbold Student number: 13509716 Lecturer: Aogan Mulcahy Tutor : Nivelton Title: “Sociology emerged as an attempt to understand modern society” This essay focuses and investigates how sociology emerged in order to comprehend the developments and changes of modern society. It begins by discussing sociology at a personal level and will also determine the differences between Pre-modern and Modern societies. This essay will refer to Emilie Durkheim’s approach to…

Reading 1 – Introduction to Part Five (Theory), Week 3 In this reading, the social logic of consumption by Mauss has provides a platform for other scholars to argued, inspired and challenged. As stated by the author of this reading, in reference to Mauss’s work on ‘gift economy’ that in certain societies, gift exchange is seen as a primary means for fostering social ties and obligation but it didn’t form the full fledge of commercial exchange. But when monetary involves, the gifts connotes…

A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for analyzing the structure of whole social entities as well as a variety of theories explaining the patterns observed in these structures.[1] The study of these structures uses social network analysis to identify local and global patterns, locate influential…

Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was equally a philosopher, a psychologist and a historian. The power problem is central to his thinking regarding the relations between society, individuals, groups and institutions. The fundamental idea emerging from all these works is that the privileged place to observe the power in action is the relations between the individual and the society, especially its institutions. Consequently, Foucault studies – in what he calls “the analysis of power” – how various…