SOCI 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Auguste Comte, Homeostasis, The Sociological Imagination

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 100A
• Professor: Bruce Ravelli

Document Summary

For mills, people don"t think that their lives are in uenced by larger social forces. They do not possess the quality of mind essential to grasp the interplay of man and society, of biography and history, of self and world. Mills does not suggest that people who lack the quality of mind are less intelligent, yet that people who see the world in black and white. People who see the world in shades of grey often possess the quality of mind. Mills calls people who are unwilling to bear the burdens that freedom really imposes as. Mills said that the only way to increase ones quality of mind was to expose them to the. Sociological imagination. ( forcing to see one self in context, the ability to step outside your socialization and see yourself from a new perspective-a perspective that engages your personal with your social )