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Gsf231: Dynamics of Social Change: Mohan Kumar Bera BITS-Pilani Goa Campus Goa

This document discusses sociological perspectives on social change. It explains that sociology looks at events, forms, and processes through an expert lens to critically examine common assumptions about society. It explores how sociological perspectives can provide insight into how individuals are influenced by their social groups and cultures, and how realities are socially constructed. The document emphasizes that sociology seeks to understand the deeper meanings and layers behind social phenomena.

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Gsf231: Dynamics of Social Change: Mohan Kumar Bera BITS-Pilani Goa Campus Goa

This document discusses sociological perspectives on social change. It explains that sociology looks at events, forms, and processes through an expert lens to critically examine common assumptions about society. It explores how sociological perspectives can provide insight into how individuals are influenced by their social groups and cultures, and how realities are socially constructed. The document emphasizes that sociology seeks to understand the deeper meanings and layers behind social phenomena.

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GSF231 : DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL

CHANGE
Mohan Kumar Bera
BITS-Pilani Goa Campus
Goa

9/29/2019 @ Mohan Kumar Bera, PhD, India 1


Sociological perspectives
 Ways of looking at events, forms and processes through
the experts

 Ways to verifying common sense and observation

 To look at critically at commonly held assumption about


ourselves and society

How does crowd turn into a mob?


How does free thinking individual becomes religious?
How do Muslim and Christian in India follow the age-old
tradition?

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Sociological perspectives 1
 Human being live in a group and therefore their actions
are influenced by the group which they live
 Children follow local custom
 Social group determines our language and food
 Culture encourages to be individualistic, aggressive or
passive and cooperative

 It stresses the social context in which people live

 It enables us to see the connection between particular


and universal

 It teaches us to look beyond narrow social boundaries


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Sociological perspectives 2
 Sociological perspective teaches us the social construction
of reality
 ‘Seeing is believing’
 Reality has nothing to do with what is empirically true or
false
 Traditional belief influence group’s thinking or behaviour
 Religious belief of chicken pox or Measles
 It teaches us to differentiate between reality and socially
constructed reality and interpreter them from a scientific
point of view

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Sociological perspectives 3
 Sociological perspective inform us that reality has many layers
of meaning
 Concept of caste may not be based on foundation of purity and
pollution,
 but invented to serve the vested interest of higher caste

 Hindu attitude towards the cow as a sacred animal and the ban of beef
eating may be a very rational social invention

 Characteristics of the ‘Sepoy Mutiny’ (1857) by the British and the


First War of Independence by Indian nationalists

 Sociologists probe layers of meaning underlying every incident


and reality
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Sociological perspectives 3

 ‘Sociological imagination’ – C Wright Mills (1959)


 Sociology is concerned with ordinary and everyday life and
investigate people’s behaviour

 It can not depend on common sense explanation

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