SOCI 100B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Infant Mortality, Meritocracy, Risk Society
25 Mar 2016
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Agency: is the that individuals can alter their socially constructed lives. to the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices: 90"s woman/ man rules the house. Its her choice to be that way but she can change it if she wanted to: slavery, a working man refusing to work. Soci 100b: this is often referred to as the positivism vs. anti-positivism debate. Positivism (scientist in lab coats, trying to ind the one answer) Comparison - both attempt to explore the world we live in. The majority of his career was spent at columbia university in new york: he was a bit of a rebel personally and professionally ex. The wild one (1953: mills personae was much like the controversial movie stars at the time. Soci 100b: in the sociological imagination mills explores social theory and post world.
