SOC 10000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Educational Testing Service, The Sociological Imagination, Harriet Martineau
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Apply analytical tools to something you have always done without much conscious thought. Requires you to reconsider your assumptions about society and question what you have taken for granted in order to better understand the world around you. Wright mills said that to think critically about the surrounding world, a person must use sociological imagination. Sociological imagination is the ability to see the connections between personal experience and the larger forces of history. Need to make our own lives seem ordinary and not think that it is unique, which helps us realized that we are not alone. Sociological imagination allows people to step out of the rapidly changing reality to understand what is occurring in the world. It is about asking ourselves if what we think is natural isn"t natural. Would have to pay a lump sum of ,023 by the end of the four year bachelor"s degree.
