SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Orbital Inclination, Elitism, Ethnocentrism

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: jones

Document Summary

Value-free sociology (vs sociological imagination - c. wright mills) Teachers should not abuse the asymmetry of the relationship. Inclination to engage in devious/disorderly behavior because of lack of connection to environment. Occurs in communities which physical appearance of environment is allowed to deteriorate. People on the street seen as broken windows. Policing authorities believe that no good can come. Optional: additional evidence from other readings and lecture. A worker trying to decide whether to report an oil spill, beamish. To have this quality is to have sociological imagination. Due to the institution of the oil rig, there are aspects of the institutional set up that prevent the individual to act independently. Members of an organization, such as at the rig, feel a sense of diluted responsibility; it is always someone else"s responsibility to deal with the problem. Each worker relies on the rig for continued employment, so they are inclined.