SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: C. Wright Mills, Aphorism, Universal Health Care
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Sociological imagination: way in which we think about society. Social context/location: occupation, income, education, gender, age, ethnicity (value is attached to all of these) External influences: your experiences become part of who you are, these are valued and become part of your personal value system. Sociological imagination - a way of looking at the world that allowed links between apparently private problems and important social issues. Caring for elders: private struggle became a public issue health benefits, pensions, elderly homes. Personal became public, then a solution came about. Many private concerns have become public and have been addressed in a sociological way. Example: us. healthcare and creating universal healthcare. Grasping the connection between history and biography mill"s 59. Challenge basic impulses to see aspects of life as inevitable or natural everything we are, we have learned. Provides insight into stereotyping and active discrimination.
