SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Inequality
30 Apr 2012
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Most people take the social world for granted and view their lives in personal terms. We most often don"t consider the complex connection between our own lives and the larger, recurring patterns of the society in which we live. Sociology help us gain a better understanding of ourselves and our social worlds. Sociological imagination allows us to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society. Sociology helps us to see solutions to complex social problems. Significant alteration of social structure and cultural patterns through time. Visible and sustained changes in behaviour patterns. Necessary in an attempt to eliminate social inequality. Collective attempts to change all or part of political or social order: coordinates voluntary actions of non-elite members of society, offers a program for changing the distribution of social goods. At the heart of social movements lies a sense of injustice. The movement towards a socially just world. Based on the concepts of human rights and equality.
