SOC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Sociological Imagination, Neocolonialism, Jim Crow Laws
7 Jan 2017
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Stepping back and looking at the bigger picture: the ability to distinguish between personal troubles and social issues, the ability to connect societal and historical forces to your own life. Personal troubles public issues sociological question at the structural/societal/historical level. Was to be married at 13 to an older man. Mother lesancha physically fought father lesancha for teriano to go to school. Missionary sponsored teriano to study ece in canada. Ear(cid:374)ed her (cid:271)a(cid:272)helor"s i(cid:374) so(cid:272)ial (cid:449)ork, (cid:449)e(cid:374)t (cid:271)a(cid:272)k ho(cid:373)e a(cid:374)d repaid her father, (cid:271)uild a (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)rete home for her mother. Father refuses to educate the girl child. Traditional/cultural values do not support girl children in school. Girls do domestic work in the household; teriano in school meant less people to help out. Females are expected to be married and stay domestic. Poverty forces families to marry off girl children and receive cows in return.
