{"id":127565,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/classical-social-theory-term-paper"},"modified":"2017-08-16T06:21:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:21:22","slug":"classical-social-theory-term-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/classical-social-theory-term-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Classical Social Theory Term Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the_content_wrapper\">\n<p><strong>Spring 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Term Paper: Exercising a sociological imagination, seeking to locate the individual and understanding the individual in non-individual ways.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I. A biological analysis from the perspective of the Sociology of Knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>II. Karl Mannheim (1893-1944) Ideology and Utopia (1936)<\/p>\n<p>A. Central Assertion: All knowledge is existentially determined.<\/p>\n<p>1. Humans as social creatures<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Humans live in specific historical\/cultural contexts.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Humans occupy specific statuses and play specific roles within specific groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 These facts determine our \u201cLocation\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2. Location determines what we see, how we see it and therefore what we \u201cKnow\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Rather than objective and universal, knowledge is subjective and particular.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u201cKnowledge\u201d as bias<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>B. Location operationalized: Class, Status, Rank, Ethnicity and race, Gender, Religion, etc. (<strong>THESE ARE THE SOCIAL FORCES<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>1. Existential determinations or \u201csocial forces of locations in life\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>III. You are to <strong>use&nbsp;<\/strong>this orientation to examine critically a social scientific claim to \u201ctruth\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A. <strong>Not<\/strong>&nbsp;a statement of faith;&nbsp;<strong>not&nbsp;<\/strong>a statement of fact: Must be an explanatory statement (at least one variable related to at least one other variable)<\/p>\n<p>B. Steo by step process (<strong>MUST<\/strong> be followed):<\/p>\n<p>1. Identify explanatory statement and set aside<\/p>\n<p>2. List social forces (grocery list formation)<\/p>\n<p>3. Ponder the meaning of each; thatbis, how each social force has influenced perception and thus knowledge of the world. Think in broad terms. Exercise a <strong>sociological imagination<\/strong>. Place the \u201cpersonal\u201d within the \u201csocial.\u201d Peer <strong>deeply&nbsp;<\/strong>into the soul of a theorist.<\/p>\n<p>4. Relate \u201cfindings\u201d from step 3 to the explanatory statement. Detect bias.<\/p>\n<p>5. Write paper (10 <strong>PAGES<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>C. Due to the epistemological paradox (If all knowledge is . . . then so is . . . ), we may conclude that \u201clocation,\u201d rather than baising perception and knowledge, revealed to the world as it really is.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring 2017 Term Paper: Exercising a sociological imagination, seeking to locate the individual and understanding the individual in non-individual ways. I. A biological analysis from the perspective of the Sociology of Knowledge. II. Karl Mannheim (1893-1944) Ideology and Utopia (1936) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/classical-social-theory-term-paper\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}