SOC 633 Lecture Notes - Heterosexuality
15 Oct 2012
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Thinking with a sociological imagination september 10, 2012. Plummer: what sociology needs to keep in mind (cultivating sociological imagination) The sociology imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relation between the two within society. That is its task and its promise c. wright mills. Sociological thinking develop, and why do they continue? (ex: heterosexuality, 90% occurrence) the 2 most common answers behind reasoning is nature or nurture. In sociology, a focus would be on the nurture answer and how is it social. Social factors, biological factors, and subjectivity (conscious & unconscious) are in play at all times. Humans are all a complicated mix of all 3 of those factors. Subjectivity people are complex thinking beings and they are also animated by unconscious factors. In one way, there"s a push wanting us to all be the same. We all remain individuals but take some aspects of society and internalize it.
