Sociology 1025A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Sociological Imagination, Auguste Comte, Interdisciplinarity
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Why are you a student? societal norms, life chances, family/friends, personal choice. Sociologists study the interconnections between the micro and macro levels. Broader social forces e. g. , life chances, norms, social institutions. C. wright mills looks at personal troubles verse public issues which is the sociological. Sociology came out of the french revolution ( industrialization and urbanization) (1789 1799) and enlightenment. Enlightenment brought about: reasoning, why are we here , how are we here, intellectual conversations. Auguste comte grandfather of sociology (1798 1857) science can be used to understand social change, coined the term sociology, said sociologist should offer suggestions to government about how decisions are made. 20th century -distinct disciplinary boundaries, rapid movement in sociology, only really developed in the past hundred, most of our ideas are new, western bias because its origin is american. 21st century post-disciplinarily: boundaries between disciplines have blurred, they don"t wont restriction on certain angles. Interdisciplinarity: working together to understand a.
