SOC 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Collective Behavior, Dependent And Independent Variables, Participant Observation
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Sociological imagination helps us to understand statistics concentrates on the distribution of power focuses on the circumstances that produce personal problems. *biographies are lived in the context of the world events, simultaneously determined by historical specified conditions. System blame: conditions are primary source of social problems o (e. g. looking at power distribution) Some individual people in the system can be mean. Person blame: distracts attention away from economic, social, or political institutions: frees government, economy, educational system, etc. , from blame, can obstruct the process of creating systemic change, facilitates institutional control of deviants, reinforces stereotypes. Social structure: contextual condition and historical moment that help define our collective behavior. Troubles: occur within character of individual within scope of his immediate milieu. - Issues: the organization of many milieux into the institutions of a historical society. Variables: a property of people or objects that can take on two or more values.
