SOCL 2001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cultural Relativism, Impression Management, Participant Observation
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The sociological imagination: sociology- the scientific study of human society (groups- two or more people). Attempt to apply the scientific study to human behavior- which is complicated. There"s no specific set of laws that govern everyone: function is to reveal that which is hidden- quote by bordieu. 2 elements of hidden : stuff we don"t want to share with others- private motives, patterns. Process of zooming in and out of different parts of society. Have to see individual level but also abstract perspective- multiple angles and big groups: social structure, larger than the individual, but made up of individuals. Elements of social life that are bigger than us. We have a set of social ideals for what a mother is supposed to be. Individually we have our own experience with our mother, but we also have a larger, socialized perspective of a mother. They socialize you from dusk until dawn in a number of ways.
