SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Intersectionality, Operationalization, Individualism
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Sociology can be said to study the social elements such as culture, class, race, and gender have both enabling and constraining impacts on individuals and how individuals impact society through social movements. These structures lie outside the individual, and have both positive and negative impacts. Stresses the social contexts in which people live and how these contexts influence their lives. At the core of this perspective is the sociological imagination. Values, norms, etc. change over time and in different social settings. Interpretive/ symbolic interactionist meaning, construction of meaning. A sociological vision a way of looking at the world that allows links between the apparently private of the individual and important social issues a public issue/pattern. The social: culture, groups and organizations, class, race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, social movements, mass media, environment, religion, education family. Those elements that constitute the social affect not only our opinions, values, beliefs and knowledge, but also our habits, tastes, desires, dreams.
