SOSC 1340 Lecture : Sep 30.doc
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Gs protection of individual rights by law when rights violated legal structure science of studying people in rels and connections in living entities dynamic scientific study view of subjects as living. Main idea: sociological imagination (si) influential in 60s student movements fruit of sociological imagination quality of mind essential to grasping man society interplay rapid change understand uncertainty of moral basis of evaluation what"s wrong with what"s going on creative solutions from what is to what ought to be trapped in private orbit complex external factors may affect one"s private troubles complexity leads to withdrawal into private can"t understand personal troubles or history of society without understanding both translating personal problems into social issues see p. 5 quote individual must contextualize within historical period . Max weber (1864 1920) rationalization in w/c concerned w/ threat to individual freedom and reason bureaucratization posed however, central to society so much of life is shaped by decisions of bureaucracy.