SOC 2312 Lecture 1: Seeing politics differently, sociological imagination, troubles vs issues

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2312
• Professor: Joseph Sawan

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Critical analysis paper notes: theme examples, schooling, power how was power is defined, theoretical and conceptual approach on paper. The individual in society: neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. (mills, 1959, we are impacted and we impact. The personal troubles of milieu" and the public issues of social structure". The employees of the ceo dismiss a decision he"s made, or his wife punishes him by giving him the cold shoulder for not helping out with their child. Therefore, his power is relational: you only follow someone who"s in power because you believe they"re in power, assumed that power is, held by actors, intentionally exercised, necessarily manifest in conflicts, directly observable. Another definition of power": there are manifold relations of power which permeate, characterize & constitute the social body, & these relations of.