SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Occupy Movement, Asynchronous Communication, Die Form

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 103
• Professor: Chris Powell

Document Summary

The sociological imagination: the quality of mind essential to grasp the interplay of man and society, of biography and history, of self and world (of) personal troubles and public issues. Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. The personal problem of war may be to survive it or make ones death meaningful. But the structural issues of what have to do with its causes . War is inherent in the nation-state system and in the uneven industrialization of the world. Insofar as the family as an institution turns women into darling little slaves and men into their chief providers and unweaned dependents, the problem of a satisfactory marriage remains incapable of a purely private solution. Insofar as the overdeveloped megalopolis and the overdeveloped automobile are built- in features of the overdeveloped society, the issues of urban living will not be resolved by personal ingenuity and private wealth.