SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Forces, Canada 2011 Census
6 Oct 2016
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Relationship btw individual people and the larger society of where they live. Social organization, and the changes that occur over time and space. Shift perspectives from personal to social to see their interconnections. Sociological imagination makes everyday life look unfamiliar. Location within the academy: within the social sciences. Definition: investigates the happenings of human society - how society operates. Set of forces exerted by people over one another and themselves that encourage particular behaviours. Sociology identifies, explains and challenges these forces. Family ( how we organize and have ideas about how to live and raise children) Personal troubles vs. social issues: wright mills (1959) Sociological imagination" : type of thinking that connects social forces to individuals" lives. Individual experiences are connected to the workings of society. Definition: tries to get us to see how our individual everyday lives to our sociological forces. Unemployment in st. catharines is 10%: gm plant closes, causes massive loss of employment.
