SOCI 1F90 Lecture 1: SOCI-1F90, Tuesday May 3rd 2016_ What is Sociology? C. Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination
7 May 2016
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* the systematic study of human groups and their interactions. * the sociological perspective refers to the unique way in which sociologists see our world and can dissect the dynamic relationships between individuals and the the larger social network in which we all live. * a society requires a network of people interacting with each other. To make a society: at least two people must exist. One person simply makes a stasis, as there is the ceasing of interaction (with another being): wright mills. A political leftist and agitator who advocated for social change. * some believe that sociologist simply make observations about society. Mills believed that sociology should take a step further into the domain of social justice; that sociologist should play a part in enacting practices and laws of a society. * thus there are two kinds of sociologists:
