SOC 105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Auguste Comte, Microsociology, Erving Goffman
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Emerged in 19th century people wanted an explanation for society"s changes. Systematic study of human behaviour and human groups. A: disasters actually bring out a great deal of structure & organization. Society is a social group that shares the same 1) geographical territory 2) shares same political authority 3) dominant cultural experiences. Danger of reification society does not make you do things. Structure pre existing arrangements influencing our behaviour (eg classroom) Sociological imagination ability to see relationship(s) between individual experience and large societal issues. Kimberly rogers case; (osap & welfare) we try to understand this not as individual case but as a public issue. Allows us to see the general in the particular and the strange in the familiar. Sociological imagination described by c. wright mills (1956). The awareness of the relationship between the individual and wider society. Natural science physical aspects of the native & how they interact & change.
