SOCY 122 Chapter Notes -Sexual Repression, Speed Bump

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

The web" of social relations- all related to each other in some way. Sociological imagination- intersection of macro/social perspective and micro/individual perspective. Personal troubles of milieu-character of individual and immediate relations. Solution lies within individual, immediate milieu and wilful activity. Entails organization of many milieu extending into institutions and structures of a historical society. Self-consciousness- link between the personal troubles of milieu and the public issues of social structure. Private trap- you can"t escape your trap unless you recognize it as a small speed bump, then you can escape. Imagination- refers to the creative mental processes and the active role of the mind. Four dominate and interrelated macro themes: -respectability and desire. 1. integration of life and work allows individual life experiences to reflect critically upon intellectual work. 2. integration of biography and social structure: concerted, difficult balancing act of applying critical reason to an empirically informed analysis.