Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - The Sociological Imagination, Auguste Comte, Talcott Parsons

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 1020
• Professor: Michael Haight

Document Summary

Suicide in canada today: suicide among youth has increased substantially since the 1960s, shared moral principles and strong social ties have eroded since the early. Children are more often brought up in single- parent families now than in the past. Canada today are more likely than they were half a century ago to take their own lives if they happen to find themselves in a deep personal crisis. Suicide rates by age and sex, canada, 2006. Social structure: relatively stable patterns of social relations. Sociological imagination: sociological imagination: the ability to see the connection between personal troubles and social structures, developed by c. wright mills in 1959. Sociological imagination: the sociological imagination is a recent addition to the human repertoire, in ancient and medieval times the thinking about society was not sociological, instead people: Believed that society was controlled by god and nature.