SOC 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: George Herbert Mead, The Sociological Imagination, Herbert Blumer
16 Oct 2011
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The sociological perspective views the social world through the dynamic relationships between individuals and the larger social network in which they live. The sociological imagination, as defined by c. w. Mills, is the ability to view yourself as the product of social forces. In this way, you enrich your understanding of personal circumstances by seeing them within a wider social context. Peter berger emphasized that the ability to recognize general social patterns in particular events is one of the hallmarks of the sociological perspective. Berger further encouraged the ability to perceive the strange in the familiar-that is, to question the assumptions behind seemingly rational, everyday social phenomena. Sociology emerged from the need to understand the striking social changes that occurred in. Europe in the form of three revolutions: scientific, industrial, and political. A positivist approach views science as the rightful foundation of all understanding; it holds that there exists a single, objective reality that is knowable through observation, experimentation and logic.
