SOC 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter other: Scientism, The Sociological Imagination, Welterweight
25 Sep 2016
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Men feel private lives are series of traps ~ sense that everyday worlds they can"t overcome their troubles. >what men are directly aware of & what they try to do bounded by private orbits in which they live; visions powers limited to close up scenes of job, family, neighborhood experience through another person & remain spectators. >more aware they are = more trapped feeling. Underlying sense of being trapped are seemingly impersonal changes in structure of continent wide societies. Facts of contemporary history are also facts about the success & failure of individual men. Neither life of individual nor history of society can be understood w/out understanding both. Men don"t define troubles they endure in terms of historical change & institutional contradiction. >well being they enjoy: don"t impute to big ups & downs of societies in which they live. >seldom aware of connection b/w patterns of their own lives & course of world history.
