SOCY 122 Study Guide - Location, Location, Location, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Mills told us that sociology"s task and promise is to create within us a sociological imagination. To think sociologically is so different from our individualised society operates. You know you are doing it when you take personal troubles, individualised, and see how they are manifested, maintained by the larger social structure you find yourself located in. Example: unemployment, one-person unemployed living on the street, it is an individual problem. If many have this problem, and the recession has caused it, people get together and say wait a minute! There"s something going on in larger structure of economy that makes it difficult. Whole course premised on getting you to think like this. Show the person who"s marking is that you can think sociologically and you know what that means. You can take some information that you"ve learned, and show that relationship between macro/micro, which is the same as saying structure and agency.