SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Killing Us Softly, Social Science, Young Hegelians
Document Summary
Sociology: helps us understand how the social world we live in. Holistic discipline: anthropology, political science, economics, psychology, history. Auguste comte: sociology is the queen of sciences attempts of social physics . Understanding human interaction and its consequences: wright mills the sociology imagination. Looking at the negative and positive in life that shaped a person. Social forces are acting upon us at all times. Intersection of biography and history: race and gender. Private troubles vs. public issues: unemployment, job stratification, declining wages, divorce, education. 1800s: pink = masculine, blue = feminine. Language is symbolic carries interpretive meaning that is created and recreated through social interaction. Colored was initially adopted by blacks in the us post-emancipation as a term of racial pride. Jim crow era co-opted by while supremacists and racists as term of distinction to discriminate. Gained prominence in the 2nd half of the 20th century: traceable back to the 18th century denoted non-slave blacks.
