Answer to Question #245816 in Sociology for Holi

Question

Afterward, read a couple of pages from The Formation of Men's Attitudes by Jacques Ellul.

Please discuss this reading assignment in light of the reading materials for this unit.

Answer 1

Jacques Ellul (1912 - 1994) is a professor of history of law and French sociologist. He worked along with Habermas, Heidegger, Simondon, Leroi-Gourhan and Günther Anders, who are one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century of technology. He was also mainly recited by the American social criticizer Neil Postman, specifically in his book The Technopoly.

Ellul said that both man and woman are prisoners of their own reason and opinions bearing in mind that most people believe that they would rather be part of something in the most ambiguous and very small way than not to be part of it at all. Ellul was a Christian revolutionary who basically believed that revolution was part of faith and was part of being a Christian.

 Ellul talks more about people and views of the world around them.   He writes about promoting and its effect on people, peoples’ need to be included and their assertion of being part of the things even though those things might not affect them. Despite seeming to have a immense knowledge of the workings of the inner mind, Ellul appears a little proud in his words and maybe even finds himself higher than others in intellect.