SOC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Sociological Imagination, George Herbert Mead, Natural Disaster
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Big challenges- so big, so many different varients/branches, its about history+politics+relationships+institution+inequality+human life, etc. Sociologists look at outsiders first as opposed to psychology. Looks at societal patterns and contets that influence individual and group life. Studies people in groups, relationships between individuals and groups. Examines what holds societies together and how social order is maintained- how structures, institutions, and culture shapes individuals and communities. Also looks at the major fault lines in societies- inequalities, especially those. Investigates the connections between what society makes of us and what related to class and race and gender. Examines how societies change, the role that people play in maintaining society as it is or changing it. Sociology as an empirical science- an established body of literature and knowledge (theories), is grounded in the empirical world (data collection), analyzes the world systematically (research methods) Qualitative: put yourself in their shoes- participant observation, historical research. Society itself as a social fact (a sui generic reality-independent and irreducible)
