SOCI 110 Chapter Intro: The Promise Notes
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Quotable quote: neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. Imagination comes from being able to shift perspective to another: political > psychological, single family budget > national budgets, theological > military, oil industry > poetry. Well being: cherish but feel no threat. Indifference: having an unawareness of any cherished values not threats. Uneasiness: unaware of cherished values but aware of threats. Problems of this decade shifted from the external realm of economics to the quality of individual life: narrowing interest to western societies, speci cally in the us. Sociological imagination is becoming the major common denominator of our cultural life and its signal feature. Science now felt to be dubious philosophy. Real science often felt to provide only confused fragments of the realities among which men live. Social science consists of what duly recognized social scientists are doing; also what those of the past have done.
