Question

what were the intalatual issues that went into the making of society​

Answer 1

Answer:

Sociology studies human society as an interconnected whole and how society and the individual interact with each other.

One of the tasks of sociology is to unravel the connection between a personal problem and a public issue.

It tries to understand that the individual in modern times belongs to more than one society and how societies are unequal.

Thus, sociology as a systematic study of society, distinct from philosophical and religious reflections, as well as our everyday common sense observation about society.

This distinct way of studying society can be better understood if we look back historically at the intellectual ideas and material contexts within which sociology was born and later grew.

The sociological imagination

C. Wright Mills rests his vision of the sociological imagination precisely in the unravelling of how the personal and public are related.

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society.

The most fruitful distinction with which the sociological imagination works is between ‘the personal troubles of the milieu’ and ‘the public issues of social structure’.

Troubles occur within the character of the individual and within the range of his immediate relations with others; they have to do with his-self and with those limited areas of social life of which he is directly and personally aware.

Issues have to do with matters that transcend these local environments of the individual and the range of his inner life.

The facts of contemporary history are also facts about the success and the failure of individual men and women. When a society is industrialised, a peasant becomes a worker; a feudal lord is liquidated or becomes a businessman.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.