SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: The Sociological Imagination, Social Inequality, Public Sociology

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 102
• Professor: Catherine Corrigall- Brown

Document Summary

Really important book written by c. wright mills (1916-1961) Came out in 1959, one of the most widely-read sociology books. Main ideas: an individual(cid:495)s personal troubles and public issues in a society can be, individuals can only understand their own experiences fully if they linked together through the sociological imagination locate themselves within their period of history. No need for job rich bitch. Business changes, merger job no longer needed. Care giver sick parent or child and don"t have time. Italics have to do with you and not society. Individual problem individual solutions; social problem social solutions. How is it a public issue? thrill, jealousy: social change. What should we do about crime: peer pressure, labeling. Mills writes that (cid:498)neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both(cid:499: we make and are shaped by history.