SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: French Revolution, Human Capital, Social Capital

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100
• Professor: Alison Dunwoody

Document Summary

1. 1 what is the social imagination, and why is it worth acquiring. Sociology is fundamentally concerned by how we as individuals influenced by society. Sociology is an array, and we all behave different is different social context. We behave differently in classrooms than with family members. Charles wright mills defined the term social imagination. Social imagination: capacity to think systematically about how many things we experien or just as a regular pattern of our daily lives (a habit) Mills wanted to question everything of our lives, and thought negatively of those hab didn"t question (going to school, getting a job) Think of yourself out of the way different form the familiar routines, from an entire. Helps us to ask hard questions and seek answers about the social world we inhabit. Rationalization: how daily life is organized to accommodate large numbers of people and accommodate the way that individuals actually think.