SOC100H5 Lecture 2: 10_01_19
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The systemic study of human behaviour in social context. The relationship between an individual and the broad society/social world (interrelation). Exposes the opportunities and barriers between the individual and society (dependent of sociological perspective) Recognizing how an individual situates in a social context. Common sense perspective: no understanding of sociology. Sociological imagination (mills 1950s): the ability to think socially about the world (individual experience and social structures) Macro: large enduring patterns (socioeconomic status, patriarchy) Private troubles v. social issues: seeing our lives singularly whereas sociology looks at it from beyond a private experience but it is a shared experience (the broad factors that shape it) Individualistic perspective could be i have a poor work ethic . Sociological perspective looks at the local labour rate, demographics of unemployment in the area. Connectedness/network to the rate of suicide, showing how to move beyond the individualistic experience. Altruistic suicide is high while anomic and egoistic suicide is low.
