SOCY 122 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-12: Religious Studies, Izzy Young, Radio Record

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

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Week 2 - lecture 3 the sociological imagination. How we naturally understand the world from our own perspective. Personal experiences you have accumulated throughout their lifetime as they engage with the world from their own egocentric perspective using the natural attitude. The basis for the understandings that individuals use to carry on in the world. Difficult to move beyond everyday stocks of knowledge. Knowledge needed to navigate through a particular circumstance/situation. Type of knowledge that individuals use in their everyday interactions within the life-world. Allows one to know what to do next, even though such knowledge is not extensive. Success and failure is attributed to personal action/inaction. The egocentric perspective of the natural attitude is restricted and misleading. (cid:862)(cid:395)ualit(cid:455) of (cid:373)i(cid:374)d(cid:863) that enables one to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society: wright mills: sociologist. So(cid:272)iolog(cid:455)(cid:859)s task & promise is to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society.