SOCIOL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Harriet Martineau, Auguste Comte, Protestant Work Ethic
30 May 2018
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The Sociological Imagination
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
9:40 PM
• If Bill Gates & Steve Jobs had been born 50 years earlier, would their lives have turned out
differently
o Both were born on the West Coast; where the technological revolution began; what
if they were born in another part of the country- or a different country; would they
be a vital part to the technological revloution
o What if their family backgrounds were different- bill gates' rich parents-- harvard
possible if they were not rich?
o What if they were born 50 eyars earlier? They wouldn't even know what a PC was
• Experiences are shaped largely by:
o History
o Geography
o Social forces; race, social class, ethnicity, gender
• Sociological Imagination: to understand how biography (background) intersects with
history and geography
• Origins of Sociology
• Historical movements that began centuries ago; the FIRST is believed to be the
PROTESTANT REFORMATION IN THE 1500'S
• PROTESTANT REFORMATION: growing number of people were disillusioned with the
power and corruption of the Church; Catholic church was most powerful institution t this
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