Sociology of human consciousness

This article explains the theory of Spiral of Silence. Spiral of Silence is the effect on mass consciousness, which consists in the fact that more often than it sounds in view of mass communication, the more confident of the correctness of its carriers, the more it seems correct and important. This article explains that the optimistic association among…

Three decades into the 20th century, a writer named Katherine Anne Porter created a story named “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall.” The narrative follows the last moments of the life of Ellen Weatherall. Written in a stream of consciousness, Weatherall remembers moments from her past including memories with her children and being jilted at her first wedding. While on her deathbed with a priest reading her the last rites, she sees and reminisces about all her children, both the living ones and…

The story centres on Marianne. She belongs to a Native Canadian family and is a young graduate who does research in Sociology, but is innocent about the ways of the world. When the novel begins, we find Marianne trying to concentrate on her research paper on Divorce and Sociology. She finds that she cannot concentrate on writing the paper because her mother is watching the local news and is talking aloud at the same time. “Momma” , as she is called…

Capitalist society is defined as “an economic system in which resources and the means of producing goods and services are privately owned.” (p449) During the past several years our economy has continuously changed, from the agricultural revolution to the post-industrial society. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the development of industrialization brought about five notable changes to the economies of Western societies. (p449) These included new forms of energy, the centralisation of…

trying to understand people’s social behaviour. Where it originated and developed to understand the fundamentals of a person’s behaviour and why they do the things they do, that cause social change, order and disorder. Emile Durkheim, father of sociology and the most famous sociologists to have lived, he is well know for his theories on Functionalism, Anomie and Division of labour. Emile Durkheim’s theory on criminology showcases how it is a normal part of everyday society and plays an important…

written in 1930, deals with the consciousness of human sinfulness and the revelation of God. . He completed his dissertation entitled, The Communing of the Saints at the age of twenty-one. Bonhoeffer said that his true genuine faith in Christ did not begin until after his first dissertation was published. Communing of the Saints with the subtitle- “A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church” was a “virgin” endeavor to link the disciplines of both sociology and theology in the structures…

Authority, Subversion and the Telling voices of the Subalterns in Mahesh Dattani’s Seven Steps around the Fire ABSTRACT: Transgendered occupy a chunk of Indian population. Not only in India but in most of the countries they live like social outcasts. Mahesh Dattani is a playwright who takes up his pen for these wretched of the earth. Seven Steps around the Fire dramatizes the brutal murder of a hijra for her secret marriage with a son of a minister. Dattani delves deep into the problem and…

It allows humans the ability to create meaningful relationships with others. (Applerouth/Edles, pg 29) Marx theory of history was captured in his German Ideology writings. Marx examined the German philosopher Hegel and came up with several contradictions and differences. He agreed with Hegel that successive periods of evolution were necessary for social change. Whereas Hegel believed consciousness led to social change, Marx examined the historical materialism…

The most characteristic form of citizenship in modern democracies until the present has been a single and exclusive citizenship within the nation-state. However, while state-building and nation-building went hand in hand in the past, there are obvious problems and challenges in drawing too tight a connection between citizenship and the nation-state because it is estimated that there are between 5000 and 9000 ethnic-cultural groups in the world, and only around 200 states, over 90% of which…

and sentiment and simplifying class antagonisms. He believed that capitalism harboured its own seeds of destruction. The concentration of labour in the workplace, combined with their increasing pauperization, would end their isolation and create consciousness of their exploitation. Their numbers would rise further due to the descent of the petty bourgeoisie into poverty. This will lead to greater polarization of the classes and eventually the working class will transform from a ‘class in itself'…