SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Sociological Imagination

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

Document Summary

We have to understand what happens at the crossroads. The great depression (1920-1230: unemployment because of personal troubles such as: People didn"t know how to market themselves to. Broad public issues, banks collapsed, businesses shut down. Changing the focus on yourself to the bigger picture and public things. The promise of the sociological imagination is that it promotes a critical and sociologically aware populace that can transformits society, making it more equitable for all members : society as a product of human social interaction. It took the work of key thinkers (hobbes, locke, machiavelli) to challenge that in promoting individualism: our experience of individualism today wasn"t always how it is now, and it"s not in the whole world. Racial prejudice: finding strength in our diversity, not always the case, in one point in time it was white canada forever . Ideas don"t last in all of time, they change. Different combinations of what people value of what romantic love" is.