SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Sociological Imagination

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: J.Wilmoth

Document Summary

What is sociology? sociology is a social science that use scientific methods to study social life provides a lens for understanding complex courses and consequences of human behavior focus on factors that are external to the individual. Men feel their private lives = traps feel as if they cannot overcome their troubles limited power move vicariously and remain spectators . History affects society and the roles of an individual affects the current values an individual holds political changes (rise of dictatorships, etc. ) transformative powers. Men unable to handle the changes and new beginnings. In defense they focus on their own private lives. How men understand and perceive the world and what is happening to them (on a larger and smaller scale) Troubles-individual based, on a smaller scales, immediate and intimate relations with others in which he is directly and personally aware , a private matter. Solution: lie within the individual, innate & within the context of his social setting.