Question

Sociologists like to use the forest as a metaphor for society. Sociologists encourage people to understand how one individual tree (person) influences the development of the forest (society), as well as how the forest (society) influences the life path of each individual tree (person). According to Johnson in The Forest the Trees, this relationship between the forest and the trees (society and people) is referred to as:

Answer 1

Solution :

The Forest and the Trees was one of the famous books of Allen Johnson. In this book, Johnson provides the response of a sociologist to a hypothetical-the core insight of the greatest potential for changing the way how different people see the world and relate themselves to the nature.

According to Johnson, every person lives with the society and the society lives for every individual. They influence each other in every respect. The relationship between the trees and the forest is like the society an its people. A forest is made up of trees similarly as the society is made up of individuals or people. A society is what its people are of. Sociology is more than the choice of an individual and it depends upon how every individual participates in the social system.