SOC100- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 33 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Things are not what they seem, all have our individual perspectives. Trying to understand the would with deployment of the scienti c method(based on evidence) Why am i a student: societal norms -> life chances -> family/friends -> personal choice. Does stealing make you a bad person: society blames problems and de ects social problems to individuals. Clawback to be done when canada produced largest de cit and had to cut back on social services. The sociological imagination chances norms social institutions choices, personal experience: mills(1959): study the relations between biography(mirco) and history(macro, for the purposes of both thinking and doing. To eliminate society war, poverty, crime [we must] establish reliable knowledge on the basis of which to act (flethcer, 1971, p. 36) 1 the preexisting conditions you are born with. 2 deriving from a standard or norm, especially of behaviour. Sociology is : systematic study of society. Using sociological imagination: goal is objectivity.
