SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Gutenberg Galaxy, Manuel Castells, Print Culture

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

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Difficult to move beyond everyday stocks of knowledge. Understanding that social outcomes are based on what we do. And that some things in society may lead to a certain outcome. Vivid awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society. Nowadays men often feel that their private lives are a series of traps. (mills, Perceptual world that we tend to focus on. Success and failure is attributed to personal action (or inaction) The egocentric perspective of the natural attitude is restricted and misleading. Must understand society to understand ourselves and our struggles and vice versa. Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both (mills 1959 p. 3) Understanding society and indiv is intertwined, but understand each to understand how they interact. The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society (mills, 1959, p. 6)