SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nobel Peace Prize, Auguste Comte, Critical Race Theory
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Certain things that influence your life (gender, culture, family, social. That something is society within us social construction (put together by people everyday), not instinct social construction: uncover the ways in which individuals and groups participate in the creation of their perceived reality. Agency: social changes, how we participate in social changes. Consequence looking at familiar things in an unfamiliar way is exciting, can make us uncomfortable it calls into question our previous understaffing of the world (the norm: wright mills (1916-1962) Difference between personal troubles and public issues of social sociological imagination structure. Stephen harper refusal to commit sociology says sociological phenomenon instead suggests to view it as a crime . Not interesting in understanding candans own demographics and long term social trens and inequalities. Using her title as mr. universe as an opportunity to bring awareness to the first nations people in canada.
