SOSC 1140 Lecture 3: Sept 25th- Lecture 3.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1140
• Professor: John Simoulidis

Document Summary

Last week: what is the sociological imagination ? (cid:224) a quality of mind not a quantity of facts (cid:224) personal troubles to social issues (cid:224) individual biography to society to history (cid:224) an ethical commitment to using social science for positive change addressing the problems of our time, what role does philosophy play in the social sciences? (cid:224) the masterbuilder of the social sciences, or the underlabourer (cid:224) each social science must take positions implicitly or explicitly within the domains of philosophy: epistemology; ontology; logic; and ethics. Today"s lecture: diamond"s anthropological imagination": the seach for the primitive, zinn"s re telling of the columbus story (cid:224) not about 1492, but 1992 (year of writing) (cid:224) about telling the story of the people without history , film: the people speak (2009) (cid:224) inspired by zinn"s a people"s history of the united states does the film speak to those outside the.