SOCIOL 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: The Sociological Imagination, Georg Simmel, Auguste Comte

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 110
• Professor: Paul Knudson

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Sociology - the study of human society. locating himself within his period -pg. The idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by. The sociological imagination - the ability to see the connections between our personal experience and. Our, what feels like, private lives are actually typical in our period and place. We have a false idea of our social positions. Social change is fairly rapid and continually getting ahead of us -pg. Ask ourselves what we take to be natural that actually isn"t -pg. Does college make a difference because of the learning or because of our credentialist society that it aids. It"s not about the tests (sat, mcat, classes, etc. ) but the experience gained, working your way up from being a nurse"s aide to a doctor. Social institutions - a complex group of interdependent positions that, together, perform a social role and reproduce themselves over time.