SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Empirical Evidence
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Chapter 1: most of the time, we live with social patterns that we take for granted as routine, ordinary and expected. These social patterns help us to understand what is happening and to know what to expect: social expectations come from those around us and. Sociological imagination/perspective: the recognition of the complex and interactive relationship between the micro-level (individual) experiences and macro-level (public) issues. Individual experiences: privately felt problems: public issues: larger forces that affect large numbers of people and have their origins in the institutional arrangements and history of a society, ex. I(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)es (cid:373)a(cid:455) (cid:271)e ho(cid:449) the(cid:455) eat too (cid:373)u(cid:272)h a(cid:374)d do(cid:374)"t tr(cid:455) to eat the right things: public issues: other larger factors such as commercials and not able to afford. Foundation of sociological analysis: people are social by nature, people live much of their lives belonging to social groups.
