SOCI 1001 Lecture 1: midterm review
3 Nov 2016
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Defined and coined by c wright mills. Referred to as the sociological lens or perspective. Defined as how individuals understand their own and others pasts in relation to history and social structure. It is the capacity to see an individual"s private troubles in the context of the broader social processes that structure them. Born at the end of the french revolution. Depressing time in france during his life. Also born in a time where society was heavily influenced by science. Comte applies the study of science to understand science. Taking society as an object and using logic of science to understand and improve. Society is a system of interaction like a web. Everyone is always engaged with other people, sociology is a very broad and hard. Sociologists focus on where the orientation of where others are and use that as the observations. What makes sociology fun, there is always something to research because you are always in the web.
