Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination
10 Apr 2020
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Awareness of the relationship between personal experience and wider society. Debt from student loans is a social issue as it is shared by others. Helps us to ask difficult questions and seek answers about social worlds. Navigating social worlds to pursue and accomplish individual goals. Challenge basic impulses - we may think a certain way but looking broadly throughout society we see a multitude of answers. Marriage to some is between only a man and a women and is a lifelong commitment. Arum and roksa study - students throughout college. Study found that student 1 did better than student 2 and although they both got good grades student 1 had a job after and learned while student 2 did not. *learning how to ask the important questions, and to think hard about how to probe for answers, is the heart of sociological imagination. Things that affect other things - mainly social settings.
