SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - The Sociological Imagination, Common Sense Media, French Revolution
24 May 2014
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The promise of sociology (peter berger, albert einstein, james baldwin) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. albert einstein. Ex) poverty, as a problem created by capitalism, capitalists cannot solve the problem. C. wright mills says it"s the intellectual capacity that connects our lives with the larger social structure around us. Grasp interplay between human beings and society. To know ourselves, we must look at our society and where we stand within it. Mills says most people live their lives in fairly small communities and we"re conditioned by this small context they are localized by the larger communities (called social structures) We rarely question social structures, because we take the structures as normal. Connecting lives with society is the first step in developing the sociological imagination. If people can answer these questions, people are well on the road to developing the sociological imagination.
