SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Bourgeoisie

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Sabrina Malik

Document Summary

Sociological imagination: is the ability to go beyond personal issues to connect them to broader social structures. It is the ability to link distal relations (institutions, governments, education systems) of power to immediate life situations. Philosophic idealism (subjective) is an analytical framework that asserts that the mind, idea, or spirit is primary and the basis for the material world. Philosophical materialism (objective) is an analytical framework that asserts that the material world is primary: Materialism is the philosophical principle that the world is real and knowable and that ideas come from interacting with the world (as opposed to philosophical idealism , which says that the world is a product of some idea or ideal). Dialectics: a philosophical approach to the world that emphasizes the constancy of change and the interrelationship of elements. Change proceeds from the quantitative (slow heating of water, each degree) to the qualitative (properties change, different substance)