SOC 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: C. Wright Mills

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 505
• Professor: Mark Norman

Document Summary

Kobe bryant case study on deviance, media and crime. The charges and trial reveal and illuminate bitter divisions in american society, as the allegations against bryant brought forth tensions involving conceptions of race, masculinity, gender and femininity, and the role of sport and celebrity in public life. For markovitz, the trial reveals: the politics of racialized and gendered mass-media spectacles, long histories of struggles by social movements over the meanings of catergories of race and gender. These struggles have influenced the ways in which various segments of the american public understand history. Our understandings of the past help shape our understandings of the present. C wright mills" sociological imagination: allows individuals to interpret and understand public events from specific and personal perspectives: for example, the personal is the political re. race and gender et al. For markovitz: those aware of long histories of racial injustice may understand events like the.