August 25 2013 SOC201 MOD1 Case Roach hellip

Case Assignment- The Sociological Framework
Catonia Roach
Trident University

SOC201- Introduction to Sociology
Dr. Ticey Hosely
August 25, 2013

The Sociological Framework
Difference between Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology as separate disciplines within Social Science
Sociology is regarded as the study performed to analyze the surroundings of a given society. It also includes the study of history, daily working activities, and what people do in it etc.
Psychology is the study which is performed in order to understand the individual person, and what is going in their mind. Hence Social Psychology, studies how groups of people interact, whereas, psychology is mostly focused on an individual than the other two.
Anthropology is regarded as the study of people who are in a confined culture. Moreover, it also relates to their history and how do they work together. Almost identical to sociology, but with a slightly changed focus, and occasionally different language and methods related with it.
The Power Elite
The Power Elite was written by sociologist C. Wright Mills in 1956. In this inscription, Mills has directed the attention of readers towards intermingled interests of the leaders of the military. Moreover, it also includes corporate and political components of society, which suggests that an ordinary citizen is a comparatively immobilized subject of manipulation by such entities.
Considering the structural foundation of The Power Elite is that, following World War II, the United States was the foremost country in military and economic terms. According to author Mills, the Power Elite is being referred to places and individuals residing in influential and dominant arrangement, and who belong to dominant institutions such as military, economic and political of a leading country, and their resolution, which have huge consequences, not only for the U.S. inhabitants, but also on the fundamental populations of the world (Harwood & Dasgupta, 1964).
Mills further proposes the historical structural development that has directed towards the ascension of the supremacy, as it also involves a deliberation of economic power and the intellectual apparatus in the hands of a few. Further, the appearance of an enduring war focused mostly on financial system in the U.S. during and after World War II. In this book, the author is pointing towards the appearance of a bureaucratically harmonized and accustomed mass society. The writer of this book has also warned about the political vacuum, which was filled by economic and military elites. Due to the interchange ability of apex positions within these three institutions, the associates of the power elite develop class awareness and a society of interests guided by a militarized civilization. Mills has described this phase as the military metaphysic.
Moreover, the author has also described the current means of domination, which portrays various hierarchies of state, military, and the big corporate institutions. Other formerly decisive institutions, such as family and religion, are pushed sideways in the existing United States. They become accustomed to current life, which in turn is placed and determined by the recent means of power (sociosite.net, 2012).
Describe personal reaction using a Psychological lens – how do you feel about what he is saying personally?
Mill has asserted that intellectual politics should be based entirely on the politics of truth. The scholarly individual must be able to search for the most appropriate definition of reality. It is not associated only with politicization of truth, but also with the demystification of politics and the formation of an atmosphere, which favours the scientific study of social and political life. There are certain implications which portray unmistakable remainders of doubt. The principal idea here is the politics of truth, which is then implied to a certain activism against which the concept of scientific investigation.
It is also incompatible to the requirements of the rational engaged in social reinstatement. The truth, which Mills is referring, is not attached, but is directly related with the meaning of the equation. However, at some points, Mills has indirectly connotated overtones, to a more violent task of social and political achievement. This link emerges very noticeably in the title of the essay, in which the expression appears, "On Knowledge and Power".
Describe your reaction using a Sociological lens – how are his beliefs played out in the society you experience, not individually?
Mills reaction towards sociological lens provide with scientific indication for the conclusion that the mass media performed, only reduced weight in the atmosphere of opinion configuration. That study had referred to the preponderant authority of personal relationships in the elicitation and formation of political opinion.

Reference
Harwood, E., & Dasgupta, S. (1964). Wright Mills and "the Power Elite". The Economic Weekly.
Sociosite.net. (2012). Famous Sociologists. Retrieved from sociosite.net: http://www.sociosite.net/topics/sociologists.php#MILLS