Sociology 2240E Chapter Notes - Chapter 1st Semester Readings: Gender Binary, Social Democracy, Wage Labour
11 Jan 2018
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Week 1: the sociological imagination by c. wright mills: The public issues of social structure : issues: have to do with matters that transcend these local environments of the individual and the range of his inner life. *there are both private and public sides to most issues* Examples: when in a city of 100,000 people, only one man is unemployed that is a personal trouble. Well-being: when people cherish some set of values and do not feel any threat to them. Indifference: people who are neither aware of any cherished values nor experience any threat. Uneasiness: unaware of any cherished values but still are very much aware of a threat. Sociological work has tended to move into 3 general directions. Tendency #1: towards a theory of history: marx, spencer, weber. Tendency #2: towards a systematic theory of the nature of man and society": static and abstract view of the components of social structure on quite a high level of generality.
