SOCIOL 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Antipositivism, René Descartes, Achieved Status

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1Z03
• Professor: Lina Samuel

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Chapter 1-understanding sociological imagination: sociology: the systematic study of human groups and their interactions. Choosing what to wear is entirely influenced by others that you will interact with in the future. If you receive a bad grade, you tend to be embarrassed of yourself and you stuff the test in your bag and never ask for help. You assume you are the only one who failed. Quality of mind: quality of mind: being able to look beyond personal circumstance and into social context and understand that things such as failure are partially or entirely the result of social forces, ex. Peter berger: w(cid:396)ote (cid:862)invitation to o(cid:272)iolog(cid:455): a hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)isti(cid:272) pe(cid:396)spe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e(cid:863, sociological perspective: the ability to view the world from two distinct yet complementary views: seeing the general in the particular and seeing the strange in the familiar. General in the particular: you can look at seemingly unique events and recognize the larger features involved, ex.