48-102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Change, Transculturation, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology
• Course: 48-102
• Professor: Patrick Lalonde

Document Summary

You"re thinking based on common sense but it is the counter intuitive (the opposite) We examine: how we participate in it and how the society functions, how to make a difference in the society, a way of understanding the world. Neo-liberalism individualism tends to look at the individuals and not something bigger. We all connected to each other in some way; like the metaphor of the roots under the trees, the roots are interconnected between trees. Individualistic thinking doesn"t solve the social problems; ignoring social problems. Sociological imagination a quality of mind which enables individual to look at society as an outsider, to look at social focus which affect individual behaviour (makes you think the original problem is social, outside the individual) Interested as a society as a whole but also different individual characteristics. Depending on our characteristics, we see the society and the world differently.