SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - The Communist Manifesto, The Sociological Imagination, Montesquieu

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

Document Summary

Tend to view world through our own personal lens. Notion of naturalism, how we naturally perceive the world. As biological beings, we rely on our senses. Gives us an egocentric and isolated perspective** Web of social relations: how we are all connected and intertwined. Based on our experiences and our past encounters. Commonality between people s everyday stocks of knowledge: accumulate a standard of said common sense . Personal troubles of milieu: character of individual and immediate relations, solution lies within an individual, immediate milieu and willful activity, a trouble is a private matter. Public issues of social structure: transcend local environment, entails organization of many milieu extending into institutions and structures of historical society, an issue is a public matter. Essential components: differences from other social orders; meaning of particular features: essential components; ie. ) Strong belief in equality of opportunity- dominant value of current day society. technology.