SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Breast Implant, Hegemonic Masculinity, Halliburton
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In that scene from pulp fiction, jules and vincent were talkinga bout the differences in hamburger conventions between us and europe. Europeans use mayo on fries, whereas we use ketchup: if vincent were to use his sociological imagination, he would have questioned why we in america use ketchup and not mayo. Instead, he just focused on the strangeness of them using mayo. But in fact any condiment could be viewed as normal in the right cultural setting. Examining the connection between the society at large. Names can connect you to a family. Your last name is often the same as other peoples. In general, what we re giving examples of is social institituions. The legal system, the labor market, the educational system, the military is known as a total institution. More wisdom from c wright mills neither the life of an individual nor the history of the society can be understood without understanding both.
