SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Auguste Comte, French Revolution, The Sociological Imagination
13 Dec 2017
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The doctors of society ; sociologists diagnose social problems challenging common sense ideas about th way the world works. Sociology works to find where knowledge comes from. The society-socius (being with others) ology (the study of) The term sociology was coined by auguste comte (1798-1857) circa moderate phase of the. We can understand the world through our own observation. Comte took the logic of science and applied it to societies in chaos. The systematic study of social behaviour in human societies. A large complex of human relationships: wright mills the sociological imagination (1959) Thinking sociologically means being able to see the relationship between personal troubles and public issues . The vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society. High unemployment rates, addictions, trouble with the legal system all personal problems that translate into large social issues. Personal troubles, biographies, history and public issues. The job of a sociologist is to find the strange in the familiar .
