SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Sociological Imagination, Totalitarianism, Social Fact

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Lindsey Freeman

Document Summary

Recognize that personal experiences are affected by our class, ethnicity, gender, age, and sexual orientation. Sociological research enables us to discuss social issues in an informed and critical manner. It allows us to challenge perceptions such as stereotypes. Sociology shares common interests with other social sciences such as psychology, anthropology, social work, economics, and political science. Shares common interests with fields in the humanities, such as philosophy, history, cultural studies, and literary studies. Looking for and looking at social patterns in social variables, social institutions, Focus on social variables such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and social interactions sexuality, and class. The social world (social practices, attitudes, institutions) Oneself (how individuals relate to social patterns) Others in the multicultural context of canada. C. wright mills coined the term sociological imagination. Mills stated that the challenge of sociology is to make the connection between how society works and how it works in terms of our personal lives.