SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Sociological Imagination, Social Reality, Scientific Revolution
13 Mar 2018
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The nature of social life: many social theorists want specifically to understand the taken for- granted nature of social life. Why it is that people typically act. In orderly, routine, and generally predictable ways: without thinking about it. What is: how it is, why something is. How does it change: should we change them, how do we change them for the future, ne(cid:449) ideas , questions the present. Is anything really a crime on its own, or are they crimes because we say so and have made laws defining them. Intelligence ability to acquire and use knowledge and skills. The sociological imagination: (cid:862)the so(cid:272)iologi(cid:272)al i(cid:373)agi(cid:374)atio(cid:374) e(cid:374)a(cid:271)les us to grasp histor(cid:455) a(cid:374)d (cid:271)iograph(cid:455) a(cid:374)d the relatio(cid:374)s (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) the t(cid:449)o (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) so(cid:272)iet(cid:455)(cid:863, what seems like a personal struggle is actually an issue throughout society (public issue) Public issues of social structure (sociological imagination) The birth of sociology in the age of revolution.
