SA 150 Study Guide - Final Guide: Auguste Comte, Racialization, Standpoint Theory

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Lindsey Freeman

Document Summary

Recognize that personal experiences are affected by our class, ethnicity, gender, age, and sexual orientation. Sociological research enables us to discuss social issues in an informed and critical manner. It allows us to challenge perceptions such as stereotypes. Sociology shares common interests with other social sciences such as psychology, anthropology, social work, economics, and political science. Shares common interests with fields in the humanities, such as philosophy, history, cultural studies, and literary studies. C. wright mills coined the term sociological imagination. Mills stated that the challenge of sociology is to make the connection between how society works and how it works in terms of our personal lives. Sociological imagination helps us to understand the connections between the political and the personal. For mills the sociological imagination was a quality of mind that had three components: Comte is credited with coining the term sociology and is often considered the founder of sociology.