SOCL 2001 Lecture : Week 1
Document Summary
Concept by american sociologist c. wright mills: wrote sociological imagination in 1959. The idea that sociologist are always aware that we are , each of us, both individuals as well as members of a much larger social world ex: facebook world and groups in it. Our ties to groups can be very obvious or sometimes not easy to see. Idea in the book of the hamburger is to show all people depend on other people. The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biology and the relationships between the two and society . Emile durkhein (1858-1917: influence of revolutionary/radical social changes; recall importance of biography + history + social contexts, 1. Philosophical: the enlightenment (18th century)-bye-bye supernatural/religious explanations of the world. Hello the capacity of human reasoning + rationality to understand + control the world: 2. 1850); culminated in transformation from agricultural to industrial based economic systems. Catalyst for urbanization (19th + 20th century: 3.
