SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Erving Goffman, Microsociology, Georg Simmel
13 Sep 2016
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Sa 150 - lecture 1 - introduction to sociology. Research enables social issues to be discussed in informed & critical manner. Big bro"s barbershop - community center for gender queer, place for them to get hair cut without discrimination. Shares common interests with other social sciences. Distinguishes itself from other disciplines through history, vocabulary, tools. The systematic or scientific study of society . C wright mills coined term sociological imagination . Stated that challenge of sociology is to make the connection between how society works and how it affects our personal lives . What it means to have religion, certain education systems, how power organized. Ability to think about individuals as individuals. Idea: if writing is clear, message can be understood. Public sociology - taking sociology to public. First, there is no real writing tradition in sociology, as there is, for example, in historysecond, the field is not split into statistical stuff and heavy duty theoretical bull****.
