SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Sociological Imagination, Mass Media, W. M. Keck Observatory

• School: Drexel University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Mc Clure Peggy

Document Summary

The sociological imagination is the ability to see the social patterns that influence individual and group life. Suicide: what caused the individual to kill him or herself, connections between individual experience and larger patterns that affect group life. Components of society: family, education, religion, economy, political system, if there is changes in one of these components, there is generally a change in other components. Loss of self worth or personal identity. Pressure on significant other to get a job in addition to previous responsibilities. Structural issues have to do with: its causes, the types of people who are put into command, it effects upon economic and political, family, and religious institutions, the unorganized irresponsibility of war of nation states. How do we usually think about this. What does the research show: the myths of black teenage motherhood; most of the problems of the poor have to do with . Babies having babies -> generates cycle of poverty.