SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Sociological Imagination, Conflict Theories, Class Consciousness

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Soc 1101- lecture 2: understanding the sociological imagination (continued) Size of the social groups being considered, from the smallest to the largest. Understanding sociology requires understanding multiple levels of analysis. Picture levels of analysis in our social environment as an interconnected series of small groups, organizations, institutions and societies. A theory is a set of interrelated propositions constructed and fitting together logically, which claims to explain one or more aspects of the world around us. Explanations can be described as the story we tell each other in attempts to produce some order in our lives. Theories outlines paths that lead to particular, outcomes. They allow us to feel that we know why something happened, and whether, or not under what conditions, it is likely to occur again. Ex: in 70s individual killed a politician and trial lawyer used the. Eating so much junk food caused him to kill. 70s: talk about junk food was popular.