SOCI 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Marlon Brando, The Sociological Imagination, Sociological Perspectives
14 Jun 2018
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Sociology Notes
• Age: a peso’s ailit to ut thei o pae, ad ake thei o
decisions.
• Structure: refers to the opportunities and constraints that exist within a
network of roles and responsibilities that remain relatively stable and
persistent over time regardless of individual skills or abilities.
• Peter Berger points out that sociologists:
(practice these terms and bring them to bruce in his office)
1) See the general in the particular:
- your anxiety about university- is a degree from UVic as good as a
Certificate from BCIT? (everybody in the classroom is thinking the
same thing).
-Pressure on women to be thin and beautiful and men to be strong
and rich.
- for an exam you would have to teach the general and the particular
using your own PERSONAL example (nothing from the textbook or
notes, exams are not about memorizing in this course).
- an example could be that statistics revolving around suicide, or
fentanyl overdoeses and how they are really people loved by real
people and not just numbers.
2) See the strange in the familiar:
- Nothing is normal, there is nothing every single person does the
same! 9 everything that is familiar to ourselves is actually strange).
- Most of the things we do in our society is very bizzare and strange
- Putting on make-up is strange, breast reduction surgery is strange.
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- You are all so nice and polite ( we play the ole . Ee if e do’t
like someone.
- Even with our smartphones and social media, many of us are
lonely. ( so bizzare!!!!!)
- La is lak ad hite it does’t atte hee ou oe fo/
your culture).
You should be able to teacher all these concepts to
a student that has never taken sociology
• Good sociology helps you see the world as it really is and inspires you
to hage it. i the ed, e ill eee ot the ods of ou
eeies, ut the silee of ou fieds. MLK J.
Read: the promise of sociology by CW Mills (you will be TESTED on this)
CW Mills and the other Sociological Perspectives
Charles Wright Mills (1916-96 pulished The “oiologial Iagiatio i
1959.
(Sociology is the way you interact society and society interacts with you.
“oe “oiologists eliee these oepts…Eethig e do is the defiitio
of the society around us, that voice in your head is the voice of your society,
you as an individual do not exist everything you preseave of and do is
society.)
Mills believed that what defines sociology is its focus on the dynamic
relationship between the individual and society.
Mills’ oks all eploe ho soial foes ifluee a idiiduals’ ie of
the world, and in turn, how individuals are influenced by the society around
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them. Mills taught at many universities but spent most of his career at
Columbia University in New York.
He was a bit of a rebel both personally and professionally.
For example, Mills rode a BMW motorcycle and wore a black leather jacket
with jeans. ( nobody wore jeans but the working class, and nobody drove a
Germany motorcycle after WW2).
Mills’ pesoae as uh like otoesial oie stas of the tie.
Marlon Brando in The Wild One (1953)
James dean Rebel Without a Cause
In the Sociological Imagination Mills explores social theory and post-World
War II America.
After WWII things were supposed to be wonderful:
• The allies had won;
• Marriage and birth rates soared; and,
• The GI Bill secured home loans and access to education for veterans.
Cleal, Aeia as/is the old’s doiat soial, eooi, politial ad
military power.
However, during the Golden Age, social problems in America were also
increasing (e.g. crime rates, alcohol/drugs addictions, domestic assaults,
etc.)
Why would this be the case?
is it a ode that odia e feel the aot ope ith the lage
ods ith hih the ae so suddel ofoted?
are soldiers today still facing these same challenges?
Yes
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be
understood without understanding both.
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Document Summary
Your anxiety about university- is a degree from uvic as good as a. Certificate from bcit? (everybody in the classroom is thinking the same thing). Pressure on women to be thin and beautiful and men to be strong and rich. For an exam you would have to teach the general and the particular using your own personal example (nothing from the textbook or notes, exams are not about memorizing in this course). An example could be that statistics revolving around suicide, or fentanyl overdoeses and how they are really people loved by real people and not just numbers: see the strange in the familiar: Nothing is normal, there is nothing every single person does the same! 9 everything that is familiar to ourselves is actually strange). Most of the things we do in our society is very bizzare and strange. Putting on make-up is strange, breast reduction surgery is strange.
