SOC 1001 Lecture 1: 1:22- Lecture 1
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Societal patterns that influence individual and group life. What society makes of us and what we make of society. Its subject matter or empirical focus (human society, relations among spheres) Its unique way of looking at or thinking about the world; distinctive perspective or orientation. Ability to see the relationship between individual experience and larger society an awareness that our private lives lie at the intersection of personal biography and societal history. Quality of mind : helps us see relationship between person/biography/self & society/history, distinguishes between personal troubles & public issues, awareness of the social structures and institutions that affect our lives. Troubles: private problems from events or emotions in an individual"s life. Issues: problems affecting large numbers based in structural arrangements. *when the same trouble happens to lots of people at once or in a pattern, it suggests there is a social problem or public issue.
