SSCI 1300U Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Biological Determinism, Bourgeoisie, Structural Functionalism
1 Mar 2017
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The goal of the sociological imagination is to see the links between public issues and private troubles. Doing so allows us to the strange in the familiar and the general in the particular (mills) How to use your sociological imagination: identify settings and social forces and historical contexts, understand the interplay between agency and structure, engage in critical thinking. Graduating: structural (public) issue, find job in economy. Education: structural (public) issue, add extra years of school for certain programs. My wife makes more money than i do (nobody knows) I stole my neighbours coupons for victoria"s secret because i know she makes more money than i do: gender component: male (boyfriend, embarrassment. I would trade my 4. 0 gpa to be a size 4. I wish i was born latina so that id have curves instead of fat: gender component, what body should look like, race.
