HLTHAGE 2BB3 Midterm: Midterm Review
9 Mar 2017
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The rise of modern social theory: the political revolution. Social world cannot be understood solely through numbers and formulas. Science cannot be separated from values: gave rise to qualitative sociology: study of subjective experience and behaviors, the industrial revolution, 18th-19th century, 1750, often associated with technological advancement, profound social changes, resulted in new social problems. The sociological imagination: developing an appreciation of how individual challenges are influenced by larger social forces, personal troubles: result from individual challenges, quality of mind: refers to one"s ability to look beyond personal circumstance and into social. Peter berger: the hallmark of sociological consciousness, the ability to see situations from the vantage points of competing systems of interpretation, humanistic perspective. Seeing the general in the particular is the ability to look at seemingly unique events (particulars) and then recognize the large (generals) features involved: think about what is familiar and see it as strange.
