SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Sociological Imagination, Generation Z

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

Document Summary

Week 2- generation z and the sociological imagination. The natural attitude: how we naturally understand the world, biological nature as a species, automatically. In order to break out of natural attitude requires lots of conscious thought and effort: everyday stocks of knowledge at hand, extensive and sophisticated social knowledge, unconnected recipe knowledge, difficult to move beyond everyday stocks of knowledge. Success and failure is attributed to personal action: the egocentric perspective of the natural attitude is restricted and misleading, the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. Personal troubles of milieu: character of individual and immediate relations, rapid presentation of material at university and larger volume of reading (personal trouble of. Solution lies within individual, immediate milieu and wilful activity: a trouble is a private matter, but not all of our personal troubles can be solved by wilful activity.