01:920:103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intersectionality, Symbolic Interactionism, Class Discrimination
19 Aug 2016
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Members of a society reach a consensus that a condition affects many members and needs to be remedied. Not everyone is affected directly, but everyone comes to a consensus. Affect the quality of a large number of people. Using imaginative thought, we are able to examine the relationships between the individual experience and broader society. Connecting the individual to society c. wright mills personal troubles to public issues the sociological imagination . Employing various theoretical perspectives is critical to the process of understanding the interconnectedness of many social problems. As a result, bases of inequality cannot be examined apart from each other (classism, racism, sexism, homophobia) Mass media is responsible for the rapid spread of new information. Often the vehicle through which the public becomes aware of social problems. Mass media is influenced by: economic interests, need for news, public demand for sensational news stories. Social policies formal procedures designed to remedy a social problem.
