SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Forces, The Sociological Imagination, Baby Boom
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Office hrs: mw320 thursday: 12:30-1:45 / friday: 1-2. Concept: moral panic: exaggerated threat to societal values. Don"t just happen, civic leaders often push moral panic. More budget, more police etc. saving crimes lessened doesn"t help police. Ancient idea: folk devil [stranger/ composite of the other ] Invasion of the baby snatchers [weren"t actually that many cases in the us] parents fears/ the stranger/source of anxiety data provides basic understand what is happening. Ex. homicides of children under 5 fear is the stranger data shows usually done by parents. Leader in 60s rebellion of student union (columbia university) Sociological imagination: translate personal troubles into public issues/ understand how life chances affected by broader social forces. Goes beyond the idea that you can be what you want. I. e. wanted to be a nuclear physicist but didn"t know what it meant. Can be affected by environment or personal conflict. History: when you were born / carry with us traces of this history.
