SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Sociological Imagination, Talcott Parsons, Bourgeoisie
1 Apr 2019
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Why study sociology: sociology helps us gain a better understanding of ourselves and our social world. It enables us to understand and analyze the societies in which we live: society: a large social grouping that shares the same geographical territory and is subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Personal trouble: being unemployed or running up a high credit card debt could be identified as a personal trouble, overspending. Personal troubles and public issues: using the sociological imagination, scholars link personal troubles with public issues: The importance of a global sociological imagination: the future of this country is deeply intertwined with the future of all other nations of the world on economic, political, environmental, and humanitarian levels. Several revolutions that took place in the 18th century had a profound influence on the origins of sociology: the enlightenment.
