SOC 1113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sony Max, Anomie, Jane Addams

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Sociology: the systematic study of the relationship between individuals and society. Sociological perspective: to see and understand the connections between individuals and the broader social contexts in which they live. Where someone is from and their background shape who they are as a person. The sociological perspective: wright mills provided the best known description in 1959 saying the sociological imagination enable us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within a society. Characteristics and circumstances mold us into who we are and how others perceive us. Interplay exists between the social conditions that shape our lives and the actions we take as individuals ( p. 6) The disciple of sociology first emerged in europe during the 1800"s. Cultural revolution: science and the enlightenment during the middle ages the church controlled what people were being taught intellectually heretics: those who held beliefs contrary to the church"s teaching.

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