SOC317H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Urban Decay, Arena, Calvin Klein
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Outline: leftovers from last week (thinking frames, concept clarification, shopping: a brief history, shopping: motivations and agency, sociological significance of shopping. According to c. wright mills, the sociological imagination is less of a theory, and more of a way of thinking. Draw connection that allow us to better understand our place in a broader social context. Encourage us to connect our private troubles to public issues. Debate in the field about this term; some complain that this category includes virtually everybody. Will vary with media coverage, reputability, professional status, wealth, status etc. Not a set of rules for how society functions. Guidelines for analyzing a consumer item in a sociological manner. Warning: they often make the picture more complicated (rather than reduce consumer items to a simple story) Thinking frame #3 - macro-micro (helps us have sociological imagination) - same sushi pic from last lec. Not natural"; is a human construct with important material and cultural dimensions.
