Lesson 2

Making sense of our
everyday Experiences
ON SOCIETY
Activity 1: DEFINE ME!
CULTURE DEFINE
DIVERSITY
DEFINE EXAMPLES EXAMPLE
ANTHROPOLOGY
DEFINE
SIMILARITY
SOCIETY
EXAMPLES
DEFINE EXAMPLES
QUESTIONS 1:
WHAT ARE THE

OBJECTS OF
ANTHROPOLOGICAL
STUDY?
Anthropology is the study of humans , human
behavior and societies.
• Social Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology -

study the norms and values of societies.
• Linguistic Anthropology studies how language
affects social life.
• Biological or Physical Anthropologystudies the
biological development of human.
Is the human being,
civilization, their beliefs,
morals, customs, art, law
and habits of the human
being in society.
QUESTIONS 2:
WHAT PERSPECTIVE
DOES ANTHROPOLOGY
OFFER TO THE STUDY
FOR CULTURE AND
SOCIETY?
• It analyzes the different relations
between the natural evolutionary
process of man and the social
phenomena that determine his
behavior, as well as an evolution of
the peoples to which each man
belongs and who have formed a
culture.
A point of view
that culture
interrelates with
society.
QUESTIONS 3:
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO
KNOW THE SIMILARITY
AND DIVERSITY OF
CULTURES AND
SOCIETIES?
it deepens our
knowledge of humans
as biological and social
beings.
He argues that a great
number of our
SOCIAL EXPERIENCES
can overwhelm us into inaction.
SOCIAL EXPERIENCES cause
feel SERIES OF TRAPS
cannoT OVERCOME TROUBLES
 bounded PRIVATE ORBITS WHICH THEY LIVE
limited VISIONS AND POWERS
-scene of JOB, FAMILY AND NEIGHBORHOOD
 remain SPECTATORS
vague AMBITIONS AND THREATS
SOCIAL EXPERIENCES cause
 IMPERSONAL CHANGES IN THE VERY STRUCTURE OF CONTINENT-
WIDE SOCITIES.
 THE SUCCESS AND FAILURE OF MEN AND WOMEN.
• SOCIETY IS INDUSTRIALIZED
• A PEASANT BECOMES A WORKE
• A FUEDAL lORD IS LIQUIDATED / BECOMES A BUSINESSMAN
• CLASSES RISE OR FALL
• MAN IS EMPLOYED OR UNEMPLOYED
• RATE OF INVESTMENT GOES UP AND DOWN
• WARS HAPPEN
• AN INSURANCE SALESMAN BECOMES A ROCKET LAUNCHER
• A STORE CLERK; A RADAR MAN;
• A WIFE LIVES ALONE; A CHILD GROWS UP W/O A FATHER
NEITHER
THE LIFE OF AN INDIVIDUAL
NOR
THE HISTORY OF A SOCIETY
CAN BE UNDERSTOOD WITHOUT
UNDERSTANDING BOTH
MEN DO NOT:
 DEFINE TROUBLES THEY ENDURE
-HISTORICAL CHANGE AND INSTITUTIONALCONTRADICTION.
 IMPUTE TO THE BIG UPS AND DOWNS OF THE SOCIETIES.
 AWARE OF THE INTRICATE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE PATTERN
OF THEIR OWN LIVES AND THE COURSE OF WORLD HISTORY.
 KNOW WHAT THIS CONNECTION MEANS FOR THE KINDS OF MEN
THEY ARE BECOMING AND KINDS OF HISTORY MAKING IN WHICH
THEY MIGHT TAKE PART.
 POSSESS THE QUALITY OF MIND ESSENTIAL TO GRASP THE
INTERPLAY OF MAN AND SOCIETY, OF BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY
OF SELF AND WORLD.
 COPE WITH THEIR PERSONAL TROUBLE -AS TO CONTROL
STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION THAT LIE BEHIND THEM.
IN WHAT PERIOD HAVE SO MANY MEN BEEN SO
TOTALLY EXPOSED AT SO FAST A PACE TO SUCH
EARTHQUAKE OF CHANGE.?
CATASTROPHIC CHANGE “MERELYHISTORY”
THE HISTORY THAT

NOW AFFECTS
EVERY MAN IS
WORLD HISTORY.
THE VERY SHAPING OF HISTORY NOW
OUTPACES THE ABILITY OF MEN TO ORIENT
THEMESELVES IN ACCORDANCE WITH
CHERISHED VALUES.
 MEN FEEL THEY CANNOT COPE WITH THE
LARGER WORLDS WITH WHICH THEY ARE SO
SUDDENLY CONFRONTED
 MEN CANNOT UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF
THEIR EPOCH FOR THEIR OWN LIVES.
 MEN COME TO POSSESSED BY A SENSE OF
TRAP.
MEN NEEDS:
NOT ONLY INFORMATION
that DOMINATES THEIR ATTENTION AND OVERWHELMS THEIR CAPACITIES TO
ASSIMILATE IT.
A QUALITY OF MIND THAT WILL HELP THEM

USE INFORMATION AND TO DEVELOP REASON
IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE LUCID SUMMATIONS
OF WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD AND
OF WHAT MAY BE HAPPENING WITHIN
THEMSELVES.
SOLUTION: SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATIONS
A WAY OF SEEING SOCIETY
THAT CAN HELP US
UNDERSTAND EVERYDAY
EVENTS AND MAKE
BETTER CHOICES AS A
INDIVIDUALS AND AS A
GROUP.
SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
ENABLES ITS POSSESSOR TO UNDERSTAND THE
LARGER HISTORICAL SCENE IN TERMS OF ITS
MEANING FOR HIS INNER LIFE AND THE EXTERNAL
CAREER OF A VARIETY OF INDIVIDUALS.
ENABLES TO TAKE ACCOUNT HOW INDIVIDUAL IN
THE WELTER OF THEIR DAILY EXPERIENCE OFTEN
BECOME FALSELY CONSCIOUS OF THEIR SOCIAL
POSITIONS.
ENABLES US TO GRASP HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
AND THE RELATION THE TWO WITHIN SOCIETY.
THE
THE INDIFFERENCE
PERSONAL OF PUBLICS
UNEASINESS IS
OF TRANSFORMED
INDIVIDUALS WELTER INTO
IS FOCUSED INVOLVMENT
IN EXPLICIT WITH PUBLIC
TROUBLES ISSUES
THE FIRST FRUIT AND LESSON OF SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION.
THE IDEA THAT THE INDVIDUAL CAN UNDERSTAND HIS OWN

EXPERIENCE AND GAUGE HIS OWN FATE ONLY BY LOCATING
HIMSELF WITHIN HIS PERIOD.
CAN KNOW HIS OWN CHANCES IN LIFE ONLY BY BECOMING AWARE

OF THOSE OF ALL INDIVIDUALS IN HIS CIRCUMSTANCES.
IN MANY WAYS IT IS A TERRIBLE LESSON AND MAGNIFICENT ONE.

THE LIMITS OF “ HUMAN NATURE”
ARE FRIGHTENINGLY
BROAD.
EVERY INDIVIDUAL LIVES FROM ONE GENERATION

TO THE NEXT, IN SOME SOCIETY, HE LIVES OUT
BIOGRAPHY, WITH HISTORICAL SEQUENCE.
HE CONTRIBUTES TO THE SHAPING OF THIS SOCIETY AND

THE COURSE OF ITS HISTORY , EVEN AS HE IS MADE BY
SOCIETY, AND BY ITS HISTORICAL PUSH AND SHOVE.
PEOPLE VIEWING PERSONAL PROBLEMS
AS PUBLIC ISSUES WILL LOOK FOR
SOLUTIONS TO SOCIAL PROBLEMS not at
the LEVEL of the INDIVIDUAL.
INSTEAD
THEY WILL LOOK INTO BRINGING PEOPLE
TOGETHER TO CREATE NEEDED CHANGE
BY ORGANIZING THEMSELVES AND
THROUGH THEIR SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS.
THE LIMITS OF “ HUMAN NATURE”
ARE FRIGHTENINGLY
BROAD.
EVERY INDIVIDUAL LIVES FROM ONE GENERATION

TO THE NEXT, IN SOME SOCIETY, HE LIVES OUT
BIOGRAPHY, WITH HISTORICAL SEQUENCE.
HE CONTRIBUTES TO THE SHAPING OF THIS SOCIETY AND

THE COURSE OF ITS HISTORY , EVEN AS HE IS MADE BY
SOCIETY, AND BY ITS HISTORICAL PUSH AND SHOVE
IS A WAY OF LOOKING AT
PEOPLE IN TERMS OF THE
INTERSECTION OF THEIR
LIVES WITH THE LARGER
SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL
CONTEXT.
PRIVATE (PERSONAL) TROUBLE and PUBLIC ISSUES (SOCIAL PROBLEMS )
POVERTY
UNEMPLOYMENT Addressing or Solving Private Trouble
LACK OF ACCESS is different from
TO EDUCATION addressing a Public Issues.
POOR QUALITY
OF EDUCATION
AIR PERSONAL TROUBLE IS A
WATER PRIVATE MATTER its resolution
NOISE POLLUTION lies within in the individual and
BULLYING within the scope of his/her
SINGLE PARENTHOOD immediate personal experience.
DEFINE TROUBLE AND ISSUES:
TROUBLE- OCCUR WITHIN THE CHARACTER OF

THE INDIVIDUAL AND WITHIN THE RANGE OF
HIS IMMEDIATE RELATIONS TO OTHERS.
ISSUES- HAVE TO DO WITH MATTERS THAT

TRANSCEND THESE LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS OF
THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE RANGE OF HIS INNER
LIFE.
MILLS SAID:
• “SOCIETY - NOT PEOPLE'S FAILINGS IS THE MAIN
CAUSE OF POVERTY AND OTHER SOCIAL
PROBLEMS.
• BY TURNING SOCIAL PROBLEMS INTO PUBLIC
ISSUES THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION IS THE
KEY TO BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER TO CREATE
NEEDED CHANGE.
• SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION ALSO REQUIRES A
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE a study of t larger world and
our society's place in it.
SOCIOLOGY means:
is the systematic study of human society, focusing
particularly on the dynamic interplay between individual
and society.
SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE- is the heart and special
point of view of Sociology that sees general patterns of
Society in the lives of particular people.
 SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION- a quality of mind
that enable the possessor to link personal with social.
-helps understand everyday events.
Sociology as the
place where
Biography meets
History...
TURNING ON SOCIOLOGICAL
IMAGINATION CAN HELP
YOU WHEN YOU WERE IN

TROUBLE?
time
ARRANGE THE WORD PUZZLE AND
IDENTIFY THE PICTURES OF WHAT
KIND; PERSONAL TROUBLE OR
PROBLEM ISSUES AND MAKE A
SOLUTION FOR THESE USING
SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION.
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7. LSOMNEEHNSSS
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9. AENGTI SDIROESSRD
10. HELTHA ICRAEUSNN
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Making sense of our

WHAT ARE THE

• Social Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology -

THE HISTORY THAT

A QUALITY OF MIND THAT WILL HELP THEM

THE IDEA THAT THE INDVIDUAL CAN UNDERSTAND HIS OWN

CAN KNOW HIS OWN CHANCES IN LIFE ONLY BY BECOMING AWARE

IN MANY WAYS IT IS A TERRIBLE LESSON AND MAGNIFICENT ONE.

EVERY INDIVIDUAL LIVES FROM ONE GENERATION

HE CONTRIBUTES TO THE SHAPING OF THIS SOCIETY AND

EVERY INDIVIDUAL LIVES FROM ONE GENERATION

HE CONTRIBUTES TO THE SHAPING OF THIS SOCIETY AND

TROUBLE- OCCUR WITHIN THE CHARACTER OF

ISSUES- HAVE TO DO WITH MATTERS THAT

YOU WHEN YOU WERE IN

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