Chapter : Week 2; The Sociological Imagination
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Sociology - the study of societies and the social world that individuals inhabit within them: faces the challenge of trying to uncover and analyze the patterns that lie beneath the surface of these social worlds for individual lives. "what it means to be a human: societies are always evolving and changing. 1. 1 what is the sociological imagination, and why is it worth acquiring: sociological imagination: the capacity to think systematically about how things we experience as. Personal problems are really social issues that are widely shared by others: helps us grasp history and biography and their relation. Individual daily lives and routines: all of the questions that sociologist ask build off a common starting point: how and in what ways do social context matter. In their research sociologist link social theories (overarching assumptions about the world) with research methods (ways of studying these questions)
