SOCI 1F90 Lecture 7: Soci1F90LectureSept8th
12 Feb 2019
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A set of forces exerted by people over one another and themselves that encourage particular behaviors. Sociology identifies, explains and challenges these forces. Sociological imagination : type of thinking that connects social forces to individuals" lives. Individual experiences are connected to the workings of society. Unemployment in st. catharines after the gm plant was moved overseas due to globalization, the loss of jobs was not the fault of the individual workers but instead of the forces of globalization. Unemployment rate of youth in canada, the rate of unemployment is high among youth not because they are lazy/unmotivated but because of how the economy is structured. Personal problems are usually a result of exterior forces. Shift perspectives from personal to social to see their interconnections. Sociological imagination makes everyday life to look unfamiliar. The correlation of women and higher-degree learning, can be linked to the sociological norm of women and children or the family aspect which the women usually overtakes.
