SOC 001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Sociological Imagination, Auguste Comte, Feminist Theory

• School: UC Riverside
• Department: Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Simmers Jennifer

Document Summary

The sociological imagination - the ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and social influences. How social experiences influence the way we look and perceive events that take place in. We care because we assume everyone else cares. Society is all about illusion the social world. Views society as a system of codependent parts that work together to ensure survival. Regards society as a social system with structures. Includes manifest (recognized and intended) and latent functions (not recognized and not intended) Ignores social change and the inequality maintained by powerful people. Examines how and why groups disagree, struggle over power and compete for scarce resources. The haves dominate in social, political, and economic activities over the have- nots . Explains how societies create and cope with disagreements. Karl marx predicted that conflict would result from widespread economic inequality. Have-nots will eventually revolt against due to the economic inequality. Explain the social, economic, and political position of women in society.