SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Sociological Imagination, Siq, Secularism
19 Sep 2016
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_________________________________________________________: c. wright mills (1959, sociological imaginations: individual experiences connected to a social context, examples: unemployment, divorce, connecting individual experiences to a sociological context, secularism- Multiple choice question: the sociological imagination allows people to understand the relationship between, social structure and human agency, processes and structures, psychology, biology, and sociology, public or social issues and private troubles, nature and nurture. September 12th-14th 2016: understand that divorce is most likely to happen when a couple fall out of love. Sociological theories: order theories: supports status quo, change theories: social change, macro- sociology: society shapes us, micro-sociology: we make society. Structural functionalism: order theory, macro level, stability, equilibrium, consensus, analogy to human body, interrelated parts, functionality of parts. September 12th-14th 2016: karl max, most important: economic or material conditions, class conflict, social class based equality. Symbolic interactionism: change theory, micro level, interpersonal communication, interactions create society, subjectivity, example: creating family at thanksgiving.
