SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Sociological Imagination, Global Recession, Natural Science

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Sociology: scientific study of social behavior and human groups. Sociology focuses on: social relationships, how those relationships influence people"s behavior, how societies develop and change. The sociological imagination: wright mills"s sociological imagination, awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society, ability to view one"s own society as an outsider would, allows us to go beyond personal experiences and observations. Science: body of knowledge obtained by methods based on systematic observation. Natural science: study of physical features of nature and the ways they interact and change. Social science: study the social feathers of humans and the ways they interact and change: social science disciplines all focus on the social behavior of people, but each has a particular orientation. Sociology and common sense: sociologists do not accept something as fact because everyone knows it , each piece of information must be tested, recorded, and analyzed, ex: notion that women tend to be chatty.