SOC 202 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Year 2000 Problem, Socalled, Corporate Welfare
5 Oct 2016
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sociology - study and analysis of specific kinds of relationships in 2 ways: how people organize themselves, how people are organized by others. Shows how society works, and how society works in regards to personal life. Connection between personal troubles and social structures. C wright mills: key figure in developing sociology o. 1950s --> prof at an ivy league university in the usa (columbia university: wrote about how power worked in society. Noticed majority came from white men (similar to students in his class: fbi put him on watch list. Suspicious that he was teaching dangerous ideas to students: challenging dominant ideas, wrote the sociological imagination. Try to understand your experience in the context of the general society. Begin with something small and understand it in a social context. Curtis went to starbucks to get a coffee, barista said. Experience was to get coffee, particular was response.
