SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wicket-Keeper, Loan
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Essay 1 due friday, jan 18 @ 9am. Cite (name, year) and works cited at end. Recap: the aim of any discipline ought to be clear and nonobvious. Basic knowledge about how the world works and how we navigate life. Academic discipline should offer more than we know about common sense should teach us something beyond common sense. Sociology gives thinking tools to defamiliarize things in our lives that seem obvious more open minded, to be better at critical thinking. Looking at the world a little differently than you"re used to in your daily life. This is the heart of sociology questioning the obvious. Do you believe that going to college will lead to a better life for you. Students today feel like they have to attend college -- more than any other time in history -- a historically new sociological phenomenon. College enrollments are increasing among men/women, and all ethnoracial groups. Seen as a prereq to become middle class.
