SOCI 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sociological Inquiry, The Sociological Imagination
8 Oct 2016
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Direct knowledge: the knowledge that you gain through your direct experiences. Conventional wisdom: your common sense; you know these things from birth. Aesthetics/ art: the knowledge you gain from the work of authors, musicians, artists, etc. Religious knowledge: knowledge based on passed traditions, based on faith. Two key assumptions: social beings & social patterns. Seeing the general in the particular; uncovering surface reality. Ex. / you see a homeless man and think he is lazy and deserves to be homeless, but by examining the reasons as to why he may be homeless, you are looking at the general reasoning in the particular subject. Seeing the strange in the familiar; the taken-for-granted world. Ex. / if you get on a bus and there is only one seat available and you sit in it, no one will consider that to be out of the ordinary, it is a familiar thing to do.
