WS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: W. E. B. Du Bois, Altruistic Suicide, Public Sociology
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Sociological perspective - stresses the social contexts in which people live and how these contexts influence their lives. Sociological imagination - (coined by c. wright mills) is a sociological vision, way of looking at the world that allows links between the private problems of the individual and the important social issues. Major question is how people are influenced by their society (group of people they share a culture and territory) Macrosociology - focuses on the broad feature of society (analyzing things like social class and patriarchy) Conflict theory, functionalism, and feminism are examples of the macrosociological approach. Goal of these theories is to examine the large scale social forces that influence people"s (cid:272)o(cid:374)du(cid:272)t i(cid:374) pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) a(cid:374)d p(cid:396)i(cid:448)ate spa(cid:272)es a(cid:374)d ou(cid:396) (cid:396)ea(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s to those behaviours. Microsociology - emphasis is placed on social interaction or what people do when they come together. Symbolic interactionism, queer theory, postmodernism, and feminism that emphasizes social contrtsutcion of gender are examples.
