SYG 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: White Privilege, Atheism, Anomie
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Sociology: the study of the relationship between individuals and society. Sociological imagination (3 elements: a willingness to view the social world from the perspective of others. Trying to understand people and where they come from: moving away of thinking of the individual as an identity but instead on the social economic and historical. Person-blame approach: blames the person and is based on an individual approach, blaming on others, see the bigger picture. Ex: seeing someone poor and blaming him for his situation. System blame approach: looks at the system and structure to see where it may be failing these individuals. Ex: unemployed veterans, not enough jobs, failing educational systems, (cid:862)goi(cid:374)g a(cid:271)o(cid:448)e a(cid:374)d (cid:271)eyo(cid:374)d i(cid:374) a situatio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d see the (cid:271)igger pi(cid:272)ture i(cid:374)stead of (cid:271)la(cid:373)i(cid:374)g o(cid:374) stereotypes or (cid:448)isual i(cid:373)age(cid:863) I(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals ha(cid:448)e (cid:272)hoi(cid:272)es (cid:271)ut (cid:449)e (cid:374)eed to see it for a perspe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e that does(cid:374)"t is stereotyped or racist by society.
