PHIL-201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination, Social Forces
25 Sep 2017
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Or economic/financial problems (ex if spent more on healthcare, the problem would be. Religious/natural: we claim the problem is one beyond our control (poverty is common; Even when we consider the psychological factors, we tend to think on the individual. One of the issues is addressing social problems outside of common sense (nonneutral perspective). Common sense is just the dominant way of viewing the issue. Ex: violence: we tend to see acts of violence as on an individual level, a problem with that person. Climate change: we claim better legislation, funding etc. will resolve the problem; or we need technology to solve it. None of these fully view the problem as a social problem. A sociological perspective: even when alone, we have been forever socialized into the human world. You are never without the impact of the socialworld despite the fact it constantly influences us.
