SOC 104 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: False Consciousness, Anomie, Intersectionality
14 Dec 2017
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Sociological imagination: a quality of mind that will help [people] use information and develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and what may be happening within themselves. Troubles issues: trouble are private matters and issues are public or societal matters. Social things: first published late in the 1990s, it was already clear that something fundamental had changed in the structures of social things. Professional sociologists: professional programs prepare students to enter the professional workplace, teaching them the necessary analytical skills to perform sociological research in a professional setting. Practical sociologists: refers to the ways people do sociology in the course of their lives as well as the ways they approach sociological research, theory, methods, and knowledge. Social structures: the distinctive, stable arrangement of institutions whereby human beings in a society interact and live together. Sociological competence/incompetence: our ability to form and keep social relations with others.
