Early Thinkers: A concern with Social Order and Stability
William Thomas (Not in Text Book)
• 4 basic human wishes
o The desire for new experiences
o The desire for recognition
o The desire for mastery
o The desire for security.
• Objected to seeing people as playthings of forces over which they had no control. (opposite of Marxist theory)
• Social Change is interplay between attitudes and values. “The cause of a social or individual phenomenon is never
another social or individual phenomenon alone, but always a combination of a social and an individual phenomenon.
• The Typology of Human Actors
o Philistine “always a conformist, usually accepting social tradition in its most stable elements
o Bohemian “whose possibilities of evolution are not closed, simply because his character remains unformed?”
(Rebel)
o Creative man does not simply act within the grooves of tradition, nor is he indiscriminately rebellious when it
comes to societal requirements; rather, with a judicious blend of innovation and tradition he clears a new path
through the forest of the customary and can hence be a creative guide in efforts to bring about social change.
Thomas Theorem - If the situation is defined as real, it is real in its consequences.
Early Thinkers: A concern with Social Order and StabilityWilliam Thomas (Not in Text Book)• 4 basic human wisheso The desire for new experienceso The desire for recognitiono The desire for masteryo The desire for security.• Objected to seeing people as playthings of forces over which they had no control. (opposite of Marxist theory)• Social Change is interplay between attitudes and values. “The cause of a social or individual phenomenon is neveranother social or individual phenomenon alone, but always a combination of a social and an individual phenomenon.• The Typology of Human Actorso Philistine “always a conformist, usually accepting social tradition in its most stable elementso Bohemian “whose possibilities of evolution are not closed, simply because his character remains unformed?”(Rebel)o Creative man does not simply act within the grooves of tradition, nor is he indiscriminately rebellious when itcomes to societal requirements; rather, with a judicious blend of innovation and tradition he clears a new paththrough the forest of the customary and can hence be a creative guide in efforts to bring about social change.Thomas Theorem - If the situation is defined as real, it is real in its consequences.
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