SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - The Sociological Imagination, Class Conflict
3 Dec 2012
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Sociological imagination individual experiences connected to a social context. Reflect on a personal issue or problem you are facing. Try to connect your own personal issue to a wider social context or public issue. Higher expectations (what qualities do you seek in a partner?) Shifting ideas about gender and unequal sharing of housework. Greater diversity in families and intimate relationships, including greater acceptance of. Inadequate supports for working parents which lead to marital conflict remaining single, cohabiting, and advocacy and social change for gays and lesbians. The sociological imagination allows people to understand the relationship between: If we apply the sociological imagination to the problem of divorce we: can link divorce rates to changes in divorce legislation and social attitudes towards divorce. Order theories: supports status- quo change theories: social change. Micro sociology: we make sociology: structural functionalism (supports social order) ***criticized that it does support social order: conflict theory.
