Heroism Part II

Great Individual as Agent of Social Change

Social change as defined is the relationship between structure and actor. Society cannot be transformed without agency. Social change is primarily influenced by ordinary,people, people with the so called charisma and people with exceptional positions. Change can be also be affected by everyday activities, weak collective behaviors and strong collection of actives , entrepreneurship etc.

Heroic determinism  is constituted by the will of the people within individualism and voluntarism.

Social determinism is a theory wherein a people is driven by immanent forces and insulated form the repent of human individuals. This person understand the society and become a representation of the masses collective idealization for change.

Adaptive Evolutionary lies between heroic determinsm and social determinism

There are also theories on how to become a hero, as mentioned there must be a (1) ripe society, a society that is ready for change (2) golden ages where it is the peak of change (3) Gender w/c is primary male (4) Post human, where a hero must die before being a hero. 

Affecting History

• Event-making individuals, are the one who knows that they will affect the path of history.
• Eventful Hero are individuals who don't know that they will affect history by the works they've done.

Reference

• Sztompka, Ptrior. The Sociology of Social Change (1993).