SOCY 122 Lecture 2: Digital word

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Digital word; Digital world

Friday, September 23, 2016

4 elements of sociological imagination:

Intersection of biography, history and social structure.

Personal troubles of milieu

- Character of individual and immediate relations

- Solution lies within individual, immediate milieu and wilful activity

Public issues of social structure:

- Transcend local environment

- Entails organization of many milieu extending into institutions and structures of historical

society

- And issue is a public matter

- Eg impact of digital technology and everyday stocks of knowledge to meet

Three questions:

1. What is the structure of society

2. Where does this society stand in history?

3. What varieties of men and women prevail—are coming to prevail

a. The conditions are not of our own choosing

Gutenberg’s galaxy:

Gutenberg’s printing press—the typographic era `

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