SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Sociological Imagination, Caffeine
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Capacity to think systematically about how things we experience as personal problems are really social issues. Helps us to ask hard questions and seek answers about the social worlds we inhabit. To recognize the extent to which our individual lives are strongly shaped by where, when, and to whom we were born. Challenges our basic impulses to see aspects of life as inevitable or natural. Facilitates more active and effective participation in the world around us. We often use quick judgments in order to help us move smoothly along in our everyday lives. The ability to ask hard questions instead of accepting easily available answers is the hallmark d sociological imagination. Most people meeting up for coffee aren"t jut interested in drinking coffee. Caffeine drug not accepted in some cultures. There is an economic dimension to coffee both for the individuals and the world at large. The sociological imagination is the idea that individuals lives unfold in contexts.
