SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Greatest Generation, Millennials, Silent Generation
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For sheer lack of intelligibility, sociology is far and away the number one subject. Suppose you observed that children cry when they fall down. You write: methodological observation of the sociometrical behaviour tendencies of prematured isolates indicates that a causal relationship exist between groundward tropism and lachrimatory. Exaggerated threat to societal values by moral entrepreneurs. Seeking folk devils to blame plus media attention e. g baby snatchers, child abuse, Babies younger than a year 21 of 23 victims in 1999 killed by a parent. Need to have an idea of whether it is exaggerated or not e. g. second hand smoke, anthrax. Involved in the student movement (run by graduates and professors. Coined the term sociological imagination houses in us. Sociological imagination: translate personal troubles into public issues. Understand how life chances affected broader social forces e. g. 1 cancer. Louisiana: poor and black people live in an area with a heavy concentration of chemicals.
