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Modern Society Individuals and Modernity Ferdinand Tonnies Social Movements Social Movement Theories Technology Education Education and Schooling Functions of Schooling Schooling and Literacy... School Problems Jane Elliot and Jonathan Kozol Health Health Health Problems Paying for Health Care in the US Sick Role Population and Environment Global Population Population Growth US Cities Malthusian Theory and Demographic Transition Theory Louis Wirth and Urban Ecology Environmental Concepts Sociological Understanding of the Environment Individuals and Modernity by Sophia Tutorial © 2019 SOPHIA Learning, LLC. SOPHIA is a registered trademark of SOPHIA Learning, LLC. Page 1  WHAT'S COVERED This tutorial will cover the topic of society’s transition to modernity, through the definition and discussion of: 1. Mass-Society 2. Social Character 3. Inner-directedness Vs. Other-directedness 4. Postmodernity 1. MASS-SOCIETY Sociologists throughout the history of the discipline have been interested in the transition from traditional forms of social organization to modern society, which is characterized by capitalism, free markets, individualism, bureaucratic social organization, and a weakening of community and family ties. The transition to modernity created amass-society, or a society in which the growth of bureaucracy and the quest for material wealth has weakened traditional forms of solidarity and changed the nature of social relationships. Mass-society is characterized by bureaucracy, which is a very impersonal way of dealing with each other. Max Weber theorized bureaucracy and said that people were going to be living in an iron cage, meaning an impersonal, cold, calculated bureaucratic iron cage, in which people are not engaging each other emotionally and intensely, but rather going through the bureaucracy to engage each other. Living in this bureaucratic shell can be quite stifling, and to some extent, might characterize society today. [Show More]

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