SY101 Chapter 1: CH 1 SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
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Some findings support common sense understandings of social life, while others contradict them. Understanding that what we experience are not just personal problems, but social issues shared by many different people. C. wright mills created the term: believed it enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society, understanding that it shapes who we are and the experiences we have. Helps us to understand diversity and to question assumptions. Challenges stereotypes: faulty generalizations about individuals based on what we think we know about a person or group. Influence education and cognitive capacities through life long interactions: help in later life. Communities as a context: pat hak(cid:455): (cid:396)esea(cid:396)(cid:272)h o(cid:374) li(cid:374)k (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) (cid:374)eigh(cid:271)ou(cid:396)i(cid:374)g (cid:448)iole(cid:374)(cid:272)e a(cid:374) (cid:272)hild(cid:396)e(cid:374)"s s(cid:272)hool performance, violence can also be absorbed by and transmitted through neighbouring. Organizations and institutions as a context contexts. Kinds of groups joined/contacts formed creates variety of opportunities: participation in organizations shape personal/public identities available to us.
