SOC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Scientific Revolution, Auguste Comte, Macrosociology
22 Feb 2013
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Personal troubles - challenges that need individual solutions. Personal troubles don"t become social issues because people don"t relate the two. Quality of mind - ability to view personal circumstance within a social context. If everyone in a class failed, and no one talks about it, no one would know sociological imagination - ability to percieve how dynamic social forces influence individual lives. People who judge people without thinking about all the persons problems lack quality of mind. Peter berger; 2 perspectives cheerful robots - people who are unwilling or uable to see the social world as it truly exists. Peter berger: seeing the general in the particular. Ability to look at unique events and recognize the larger features involved. See person asking for change on street, but there are many other people in that situation too. Example of something that is normal and familiar and seeing it as it is strange.
