The Sociology of the Industrialization Process

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Reaction Paper This chapter analyzes the social policy keeping under consideration the theories of sociology. The Sociological theories helps to understand the structure and dynamics of the industrialization process, and to resolve its concomitant social problems, like high levels of crime. It is concerned largely with urban societies, and seeks to understand how individuals fit into mass society, how inequalities based on race, gender and class arise and are perpetuated, how bureaucracies work. The process generated due to the critical analysis about society, which challenges what, is normally taken for granted; in order to lead to new insights Sociologists studied human interaction and organization. This helps policy makers to understand society and their place in it. They also learn skills useful for analyzing topics like poverty, homelessness, divorce, urbanization, joblessness, inequality, race, class, and gender. These topics and others make up the focus of sociological investigation. Sociologists say that everyday life is possible because of shared beliefs. Examples include capitalism, democracy, religious freedom, justice, and meritocracy. Because human interaction is a dynamic rather than fixed phenomenon, sociologists point to historical patterns to help explain modern life. That is to say, people’s behavior is a response to the conditions in which they live. Marx believed in to communist society as an ideal type. In communalism all property is communally owned and no social distinctions are on the bases of people’s ability. Whereas under the principle if laissez faire people could compete freely with minimal government intervention in the economy. The sociologist Richard Schaefer considered Race and ethnicity as a...

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...and labeling theories of sociology in their relation to the study of race and ethnicity. In Part two, examine some often-ignored sources of inter-group conflict in the United States: White ethnic groups and religious minorities. Diversity in the United States is readily apparent when we look at the ethnic and religious groups that have resulted from waves of immigration Part three, brings into sharper focus the history and contemporary status of Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Jews in the United States. Social institutions such as family, education, politics, health care, religion, and the economy receive special attention for the subordinate groups. The author contends that institutional discrimination, rather than individual action, is the source of conflict between the subordinate and dominant elements in the United States.

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