HIST 121 Lecture Notes - Niche Market, Izzy Young, Neil Postman
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To draw students" attention to the overall goals and scope of the text that will be used in the first term; To provide an opportunity for students to draft a road map of the route and material they will cover over the course of the first term; To draw students" attention to the difference between the natural attitude and the everyday stocks of knowledge with which people generally approach the world around them and a more systematic, sociological perspective; To draw students" attention to an event with which they are newly familiar the lecture setting and the way in which it could draw them into thinking about the experience more sociologically; To introduce students to c. wright mills"s conception of the sociological imagination; discuss its main features so that students can identify, explain and use them in the analysis of a social situation or event;