SOCL 2001 Lecture : Sociology Notes
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Different ways of thinking: stepping outside of yourself. Challenging the common sense we take for granted "because that"s the way it is" Putting yourself in someone else"s shoes- professor being lsu student, or for me to be a teacher at. 4. seeing the strange in the familiar how has society affected you without you knowing it. What things are out of our control (your name) C wright mills, author of "the sociological imagination" "the intersection of biography and history" example:9-11-01-our individual lives can be profoundly affected by events that takes place during our lifetime example: the internet. No matter how smart you are, if you lived in a time before the internet, you would have far less info to work with during your time in college. We live in an individualistic society all events take place in larger social conditions; more than just the individual people involved.
