SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paul Shaffer, The Sociological Imagination, Michelle Obama
10 Oct 2018
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Out there waiting to be discovered. : always more to be discovered, evolved. Down and out video: effects of extremely difficult life, contrast between rich and poor, awareness of their decisions. The sociological imagination. : personal problems versus public issues. A problem you face, might be faced by many others is actually a public issue: social factors responsible, pattern, case study tracia owen, committed suicide at 14 2005, mb, forced into sex trade. Vast majority of indigenous suicides: inuit/indigenous is a risk factor. Languages: gap between elders and youth story telling lost, rejections of traditional values, practices were dismissed, internalized sense of inferiority and shame, loss of extended family, and parenting skills. Sociological definition of theory: a theory is a statement of how and why specific facts are related, a theoretical approach is a basic image of society that guides thinking and research a paradigm. History of sociological theory: industrial revolution 1780, rapid social change.
