SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-10: Radical Change, Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Madonna Maidment

Document Summary

Sociological perspective: seeing the general in the particular. General patterns in the behaviour of people. Society acts differently over various categories (ex: women vs men, children vs adults) Those who experience poverty, less freedom and less mobility usually have stronger social ties, greater social cohesion/ solidarity. Both: living on the margins of society. Crisis= imbalance= encouragement to use the sociological perspective. C. wright mills and the great depression believed that using the sociological imagination (situational vs dispositional approach- something is wrong with me, i cant find a job vs the economy has collapsed, there are little job opportunities ) He thought that society, rather than personal failure is the main cause to social problems and that by turning personal problems into public issues, the sociological imagination brings people together to press for needed change. Help people see how society shapes individual lives.