SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Forces
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Grade breakdown: music autobiography 20, critical analysis essay 30, final exam 30% Popular culture: a user"s guide, 3rd edition. Scarborough nelson - o"brien, susie and imre szeman (2014) Popular culture can teach us about the world and peoples" relationship to it. Sociological imagination: private troubles are social problems. Sociology is the scienti c study of the connection between the individual and the social structure. C. wright mills coined the term the sociological imagination in 1959. Paris terror attack vs lebanon terror attack (facebook pro le picture change to. The self is a product of complex social relations with others. Our biographies are linked to shared histories and social structures. Sociological imagination is a frame of mind. Society is both our object and subject of study. Social structure is made up of institutions that organize/manage our interactions. Culture is the content that lls up the structure: beliefs, norms, values and actions. Natural things can actually be socially constructed.
