SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Fall 2018 Lecture 2 - Critical thinking, C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination

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

Document Summary

Sociological perspective: learning objectives - to become familiar with core socy concepts including the sociological imagination and society as the product of human social interaction, learn the common core knowledge base. What is sociology: coined by auguste comte (1798-1857), he used it as a way to understand and study human experiences. Not about identifying what is right and wrong and black and white. Social construct of knowledge: knowledge is socially constructed; it is shaped by social groups by social context by our culture, shaped by society, experiences, invisible because it is taken for granted; prof talks students type. Knowledge is socially constructed because of our conductivities, my interpretation of the world will be different to someone else. Conservative: because of subjects, extra responsibility needed to gather info as accurately as possible. Experiences, and understandings of experiences: socially constructed, can be challenged and changed. We have been socialized to think that things happen a certain way.