SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Economic Surplus, The Sociological Imagination, Naimans
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Mill"s and marx"s ways of thinking about societies. Instead of understanding oneself or others from a personal point of view . Imaginatively getting another persons (social) shoes what are their social conditions like and how do they affect thoughts/decisions/actions. To view the larger structural picture (macro / distal) To what extent are actions, behaviors and thoughts constituted by . Summary: how are personal issues / experiences not simply personal, but socially constituted? (plummer, 2010) Overarching idea: change is the result of the internal stresses . Everything is related , we are in multiple relations of dependence - the government need money so people pay taxes at stores and for someone to pay taxes they need a job. Change is constant , nothing is absolute or permanent our age, we age every year but the change is constant. Change proceeds form the quantitative to the qualitative - shakespeare"s style of. English is different from our style of english.
