SYG-1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wallace Stevens, Confirmation Bias, Pessimism

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Sociology: systematic study of human society and our social interaction. Society: large social groupings that: share geographic territory, have same dominant culture, same government/political authority. Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. Sociological imagination: c. wright mills concepts of seeing social factors impact on us and those around us. Peter berger definition of sociology: we see things are not what they seem. Sociological imagination: c. wright mills" concepts of seeing social factors impact on us and those around us. We only understand what happens to us by understanding what is happening in this and recent period of time. We will study: race (physical), ethnicity (cultural), class (social), sex (physical), gender (social), among others and not play things as we think they are.

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