SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: The Philadelphia Negro, Urban Studies, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: John Irwin

Document Summary

Personal problems simmiliar among people, and private side of public issues. C. wright mills called this knowledge or ability sociological imagination; ability sociologist know they need to deal with personal problems collectively and often politically with full awareness solving problems entail clear thinking and careful research. Goal to explain social life, critque life, critique social inequities and work towards effecting social change. Sociology: the systematic study of social beahviour in human societies study social units people create when they join with others. Macrosociology: study of large social organizations, focus n complex social patterns that people form over long periods. Study large social units/organizations over long periods of time. Stress how slowly things change, how persistent a social pattern is, as it plays itself out in onegeneration after another. Microsociology: focuses on the typical processes and patterns of face to face interaction in small groups, study marriage, business meetings. Study common everyday interaction and negotiations that together product lasting secure patters.