SOC101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Feminist Sociology, Qualitative Sociology, Auguste Comte
10 Nov 2013
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Antionio gramsci believed that everyone is a social theorist. He also believed that anyone can come up with ideas or make judgements about different tastes. We already use our intellects to explain how society works. Many social theorists want specifically to understand the nature of social life. C. wright mills suggested that we should connect personal problems with the larger societal forces. The sociological imagination is this way of thinking. Mill"s ideas were ignored for some time in mainstream sociology. He believed that we must address social problems by linking an individual"s personal troubles with the way society is organized and structured. Mill"s also suggested that the discipline of sociology should understand an individual"s private troubles as rooted in widespread public issues. When we do so, we exhibit the sociological imagination . The birth of sociology in the age of revolution.
