SOCY 105 Lecture Notes - C. Wright Mills, White Privilege, Black Feminist Thought
18 Mar 2014
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Sociological imagination (c wright mills): recognizing the intersection between our personal biography and history. Value- free sociology (max weber)- doesn"t really exist b/c everyone is biased: important what we do w/ our bias. Founders: carl marx, darkheim, max weber, web dubois. Us has multiple troubles rooted in patterns of racial, gender and class oppression. Realize that problems can be multi- dimensional. Kaufman (1997)- encourages us to recognize the intersection between personal biography and history. The real analyst of the social world is able to understand how personal biography intersects w/ history to inform the social reality. **equips us to understand history and biography and the relationship between the two w/in society. Distinguishes between the personal troubles of milieu and the public issues of social structure . By troubles- occur w/in an individual"s character and w/in the range of his relations with others: ex.
