SA 150 Lecture Notes - Bourgeoisie, Homeostasis

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Hilal Ozcetin

Document Summary

Sociology, the systematic study of social behavior and human groups, and also the relationship between the individual and the society. They recognize that our personal experiences are affected by our class, ethnicity, gender, age, and sexual orientation. Sociological research enables us to discuss social issues in an informed and critical manner. It allows us to challenge perceptions such as stereotypes. Main concept: soiological imagination, important, will be shown on exam. C. wright mills defined sociological imagination as the sociological imagination - an awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society. This awareness allows all of us (not just sociologists) to comprehend the links between our immediate, personal social settings and remote, impersonal social world that surrounds us and helps to shape us. Peter berger defined sociological perspective as the ability to view the world from two distinct yet complimentary perspectives: seeing the general in the particular and seeing the strange in the familiar. (not in the textbook)