SLGY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Critical Race Theory, Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman
3 Mar 2015
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The sociological imagination (mostly to help with first assignment: w. mills (1950s and 1960s) Sociology isn"t a job -it"s about finding the relationship between your life experiences and what you do as a sociologist -find what you are passionate about. New ideas and questions arise from this process. Develop studies in your head -use reason to work them out. Only then will you be able to formulate the one research question that is worth asking, and then you can start to plan a research project to answer it. Make a difference in the quality of human life. Learn how to creatively think and write (continuous process) There are debates on the origins of sociology. One way to think about this is through the difference between sociological thinking ad sociology as a discipline. As a discipline sociology can be traced back to the 1700. As a discipline, sociology can be traced to three revolutions:
