SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Print Culture, Mass Society, Millennials

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Seeing yourself as the centre of the world. As a biological species we rely on our senses. Vision is a big sense we see our selves as the centre of the world, it comes by nature, egocentric perspective. What we grow up learning over the course of our life time through socialization. Enable us to act as sophisticated beings. Values weve enternalized that also restrict the things we are willing to do. Shifts notion that we are the centre of the world. Makes us aware that there are other social networks around us. Social imagination: personal biography, biography and history of social structure. Solution lies within the individual, immediate miliey and willful activity. Entails organization of many milieux extending into institutions and structures of a historical society. An issue is a public matter sociological imagination. Success and failure is attributed to personal action or incation. The egocentric/atomistic perspective is restricted and misleading.