SA 150 Lecture Notes - Social Forces, Airport Lounge, Social Inequality

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Amie Mc Lean

Document Summary

Way of looking at and analyzing the social world. C. wright mills, he wrote and talked about the sociological imagination. Importance between biography and history, human agency and social structures(any relative, stable pattern of social structure (ex. sports,school: mills is asking us to recognize the ways that peoples individual lives and histories are shaped and imbedded in history. For example, our lives are historically shaped by the great depression--> where the stock market crashed as a result of historical factors and human agency because ppl lost their jobs, moved cities to find work. These social events shape individual lives: mills is saying hat thinking sociologically means putting personal choice in social context. Examples of this can be drawn from a book called there are no children here. Social explanations for human behaviour: emphasis on social. We are taught to believe that general merit (how hard we work) is what matters. However, not everyone steps into a situation on equal footing.