SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ruling Class, Research Question, Industrial Revolution

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Halyna Mokrushyna

Document Summary

Global sociological imagination: the ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society. This allows us to create links between the personal experience and social contexts in which they occur. Tool used to distinguish between personal issues and social issues (ex. Suicidal thoughts due to unemployment vs. mass unemployment due to economic changes), it can be seen here how personal troubles may correlate with public issues. Society a large social grouping that shares the same geographical territory and is subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Global interdependence a relationship in which the lives of all people are intertwined closely and any o(cid:374)e (cid:374)atio(cid:374)"s p(cid:396)oble(cid:373)s are part of a larger global problem. Commonsense knowledge notions of ordinary conduct in everyday life. Myths popular but false notion, used intentionally or unintentionally to perpetuate certain beliefs or theories, even in light of conclusive evidence to the contrary.