Author Question: According to sociologist George Herbert Mead, __________ refers to the process by which a person ... (Read 57 times)

Tirant22 · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

According to sociologist George Herbert Mead, __________ refers to the process by which a person mentally assumes the role of another person or group in order to understand the world from that person's or group's point of view.

a. role-exploration
b. role-assumption
c. role-taking
d. role-searching

Question 2

Describe the Age of the Enlightenment and its impact on sociology.

What will be an ideal response?

Briannahope · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 2, 2018

Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

In this period of European thought, emphasis was placed on the individual's possession of critical reasoning and experience. There was also widespread skepticism regarding the primacy of religion as a source of knowledge and heartfelt opposition to traditional authority.

A basic assumption of the Enlightenment was that scientific laws had been designed with a view to human happiness and that the invisible hand of either Providence or the emerging economic system of capitalism would ensure that the individual's pursuit of enlightened self-interest would always be conducive to the welfare of society as a whole. The Enlightenment produced an intellectual revolution in how people thought about social change, progress, and critical thinking. The optimistic views of the philosophes and other social thinkers regarding progress and equal opportunity became part of the impetus for political and economic revolutions.