SOCI 1010 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Feminist Sociology, Émile Durkheim, Antonio Gramsci

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1010
• Professor: Charles Battershill

Document Summary

Antonio gramsci believed that everyone is a social theorist. Gramsci also argued that individuals already use their intellects to explain how society works, but most of what we do is unknowingly biased. Many social theorist want to understand the taken-for-granted nature of social life: why it is so often unthinkingly orderly, routine, and generally predictable in sociological terms. We also expect the social world to follow the rules that we take for granted: people in. Canada will drive on the right-hand side problems with larger forces in society/public issues. They key to understanding according to c. wright mills, is the ability to connect personal. Mills a critical and caustic sociologist wrote in the sociological imagination (1959) that it wasn"t enough to focus only on a person"s experiences; they must be understood in their. The feminine mystique (1963), betty friedan found that educated housewives in the u. s. social context were generally unhappy. The use of either*or propositions is termed binary thinking.