SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Psych

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

Document Summary

Systematic study of human groups and their interactions. Sociological perspective: unique way of seeing our world and can dissect the dynamic relationships between individuals and larger social network in which we all live. Suggested that people who do not, or cannot, recognize the social origins and character of their problems may be unable to respond to them effectively. Individual and social are linked, can"t understand one without the other. Sociological imagination (book: developing an appreciation of how individual challenges (personal troubles) are influenced by larger social forces (social issues, sociological imagination is the ability to perceive how dynamic social forces influence individual lives, micro and macro. Personal troubles result from individual challenges: can become public issues, ex. Rosa parks personal struggle on the bus became a public issue (civil rights movement) Quality of mind ability to view personal circumstance w/ a social context. Social issues are caused by larger social factors.