SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Mary Wollstonecraft, Social Fact, Anomie
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Sociology is a discipline of and for curious minds. C. wright mills suggested half a century ago, uncovering the relationship between what he called personal troubles and public issues calls for a sociological imagination. Sociological imagination: the ability to grasp the relationship between individual lives and the larger social forces that shape them that is to see where biography and history intersects. Agency and structure is significant when talking about. Agency can affect structure the same way structure can affect agency. Critical thinking: the ability to evaluate claims about truth by using reasoning and evidence. Be willing to ask any question, no matter how difficult. Think about the assumptions and biases including your own that underlie all studies. Be willing to admit you are wrong or uncertain about your results. Sociological imagination helps us see that this private trouble is in many respects influenced by public issues.
