Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: C. Wright Mills, Credentialism And Educational Inflation
22 Sep 2016
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Pattern of routine, regular, ongoing reliable, predictable, repetitive that guides and constrains behaviour. Teaches us how to behave in unique situations: ex: the way we act in school routine that is expected of us, institutions are made by social structure. What"s accepted as good or bad behaviour. If routine involves just one person, it is not a social structure because there is no interaction/relationship. When social structure is disrupted, it become very chaotic. In unique situations, we take similar experience and apply it. In manitoba, aboriginals are 11% more likely to contract hiv . But we don"t know why they have higher rate look at patterns (history) discrimination by canadian government. We have to understand social structure first. Tried to fix the problem: job of sociologist to cultivate sociological imagination, understand connection between biography and history. Personal troubles + public issue: understand biography within context of history. Only understand life story with canadian history : we are product of history.
