The Songs We Sings – Theorists of modernity (notably Kant) argued that increases in human reason would lead to the perfection of social and political organization.

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The Songs We Sings – Theorists of modernity (notably Kant) argued that increases in human reason would lead to the perfection of social and political organization. Sociology’s founding generation rejected this idea by pointing to the world around them, and their work has stayed in fashion because the problems they pointed to still exist. For this paper, select song “Alright” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z48u_uWMHY, and explain its themes by comparing and contrasting how 3 theorists from the list of below theorists would understand its message differently.

Freud – Civilization and the Individual & Oedipus, the Child

De Beauvoir – The Data of Biology

Du Bois – Black Reconstruction and the Racial Wage

Bourdieu – Structures, Habitus, Practices

Berger and Luckman – The Social Construction of Reality

Horkheimer and Adorno – The Culture Industry

Adorno – Is Art Lighthearted?

White – Catnets

Elias – The Social Constraint towards

Self – Constraint

Marx – Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

Gilman – Women and Economics