SOC 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Socalled, Ralf Dahrendorf, Georg Simmel
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Social networks are ties between people, groups, and organization. Social networks and social media highlight a feature common to all societies: our existence is always connected to our relationship with others. Society is a large group of people who live in the same area and participate in a common culture. Societies are always evolving and changing, and in the process these changes raise new puzzles and challenges for understanding the human experience. A social imagination is the capacity to think systematically about how things we experience as personal problems: for example, debt from student loans, competing demands from divorced parents, or an inability to form a rewarding romantic relationship. The sociologist c. wright mills (1916-1962) coined the term sociology and wrote that the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. The sociological imagination helps us to ask hard questions and seek answers about the social worlds we inhabit.
