SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Socioeconomic Status, Visible Minority, Social Forces
24 Dec 2015
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Individual and the social are linked and cannot understand without the other. Person troubles (individual challenges) vs. social issues (larger social environment: bad test score (indv. ), whole class has a bad test (social) Many personal problems never become social so indv. deal with problems. Quality of mind ability to look beyond personal circumstance and into themselves social context. Without quality of mind, everyone has a trouble and if others have same trouble and no one say anything, it will never become an issue (ex. bad test) Sociological imagination ability to understand dynamic relationship b/w: improves quality of mind, looking at yourself in a different perspective and seeing social forces. Cheerful robots people who are unable or unwilling to see the social indv. lives and society (reflection) world. Move from particular to general and reverse. Agency the assumption that the indv. has the ability to alter their socially constructed life.
