SCLG1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Thomas Friedman, Connel, Harold Garfinkel

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SCLG1001
• Professor: Robert van Krieken

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Week 1: the sociological imagination: learning objectives. Located in the week 1 content folder: ted talk: the wisdom of sociology, reading. No quiz this week: define/take notes on these key concepts/terms. The idea that sociology is concerned with explaining how the everyday experiences of individuals which appear to be personal are rooted in larger political, social and economic processes. C. wright mills(cid:859)s 1(cid:1013)5(cid:1013)- differences between our everyday knowledge of our so(cid:272)ial e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d a so(cid:272)iologi(cid:272)al u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g of it(cid:863) further, results i(cid:374) the civilising of the mind on a condition of conscious freedom. (peter berger. Sociology steps outside of individual experience and looks for embedded social processes and structures that give a generalised pattern to private troubles. Social imagination produces change: private troubles into public issues or (private innovation and public growth?) eg: private issue of unemployment, public issue of 3 million unemployed eg: innovation: our sense of time, public education,science, technology.