SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Forces, Race Matters, Generic Point
8 Sep 2017
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Understanding sociological imagination (think of it like an onion - peel it back: global community, society, national organizations, institutions, and ethnic subcultures, local organizations and community, me (and my inner circle) Peter berger: seeing the general in the particular is the ability to look at seemingly unique events (particular) and then recognizing the larger (general) features involved, think about what is familiar and see it as strange. For example, the slut walk - a police officer made a comment about how a girl shouldn"t dress like a slut and many individuals decided to do a walk and dress provocately. Sociology in canada: geography and regionalism, ability to survive overtime, role of regionalism, political economy, clement - interest in the interactions of politics, government and the social and cultural constitution of markets, institutions and actors, canadianization movement. Influenced by american sociology: radical nature, greater focus on macrosociology as well as feminist ideas. Sociology - 9th canadian edition [macionis & gerber] reading.
