[SOCY 344] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 104 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 344
• Professor: Cynthia B Levine- Rasky

Document Summary

Some problems like drunk driving or domestic abuse were originally seen as an individual problem but are now understood as social problems. Something like traffic accidents are not social problems, because of political subjective reasons, as a result they are changing. Why study social problems: to understand social forces that shape our lives on personal and societal levels. Individualistic traits, upbringing, childhood: culture? groups rather than individuals and their alleged cultural inequalities, culture of poverty, society? the way society is organized, family income organizes society. The sociological imagination: the ability to see the relationship between an individual"s experiences and the larger society in which they are contextualized - personal troubles vs public issues (c. wright mills): Personal troubles have to do with (the individual) self and with those limited areas of social life of which (the individual) is directly and personally aware.