SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: The Sociological Imagination, Solidarity, Social Relation
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People often feel trapped in their private lives because they cannot overcome their troubles. What people are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by their private orbits (their visions and powers are limited to their jobs, family etc. The facts of contemporary history are also facts about the success and the failure of individual men and women. People do not impute their well-being to the ups and downs of the society in which they live however many aren"t aware of the connection between their lives and the course of world history. People cannot cope with their issues in such ways as to control the structural transformations that lie behind them. Sociological imagination: enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals.
