SOC 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Sociological Imagination, Social Forces, Social Constructionism

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1020
• Professor: Michaela Ruppert

Document Summary

The study of human social relationships and institutions. A social science involving the study of social lives of people, groups and societies. Looking at the various things that influence people"s lives. Think about the society you live in and how it affects your life. Society- a group of people within a certain boundary that share similar structural influences. Short anonymous contacts to global social processes. C. wright mills coined the term sociological imagination to refer to the vivid awareness of the relationship between private experience and the wider society. Living on the edge of the norms. Easy to think that other factors have caused you to be the way that you are. Ex) great depression- not something i caused but the outcome of lots of different social forces. May be familiar to us, but in the us as a whole, this is not the majority. 3 most troubling thing in my life.