SOC 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Auguste Comte, The Sociological Imagination, Learned Society

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Halyna Mokrushyna

Document Summary

Society: large social grouping that shares the same geographic territory, same political authority, and cultural expectations. Global interdependence: relationship where one nations problem is apart of a larger global problem. Race: people distinguished by physical characteristics such as skin colour. Gender: meanings, beliefs, and practices associated with sex differences, referred as femininity and masculinity. Form of knowing that guides ordinary conduct in life. Many common sense notions are myths (popular belief but false notion) Media is a source of common sense. Sociologists use scientific standards, not myths, when studying society and social interaction. Use systematic research techniques and are accountable to the scientific community. Goal is objectivity in searching for patterns in behavior. Sociologist c. wright mills describes term as the ability to see relationship between individual experiences and larger society. Personal troubles: private problems of individuals and who they interact with.