01:920:101 Lecture Notes - Hull House, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Global Exchange

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: 01:920:101
• Professor: Professor Wilhelms

Document Summary

I. why focus on mobile phones: core concept 1: sociology is the scientific study of human activity in society. The mobile phone is a human-created technology that has a. transformed or will transform every aspect of life. The intensity of these currents is broadly reflected in rates summarizing various behaviors. The resolution of a trouble, if it can indeed be resolved, lies in changing the individual in some way. Issues: matters that can be explained only by factors outside an. 2. individual"s control and immediate environment: many people cannot see the intricate connection between their personal situations or troubles and the larger social forces. Sociological imagination: the quality of mind that enables a. individuals to thing about what is going on in the world and what may be happening within themselves (mills 1959, p. 5) Iv. the industrial revolution: core concept 4: sociology emerged in part as a reaction to the industrial.