SOC101 Final: Lecture 1 study notes.docx

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC101
• Professor: Barry Mc Clinchey

Document Summary

Antonio gramsci believed that everyone is a social theorist. We already use our intellects to explain how society works. Many social want specifically to understand the taken-for-granted nature of social life: Mills" (john stewart mill) ideas were ignored for some time in mainstream sociology. He believed that we must address social problems by linking an individual"s personal troubles with the way society is organized and structured. Mills also suggested that the discipline of sociology should understand an individual"s private troubles as rooted in widespread public issues. When we do so, we exhibit the sociological imagination". The birth of sociology in the age of revolution. Sociology was developed in the 19th century by european scholars who were aware that their world was changing rapidly and fundamentally. What was new when sociology was invented about two centuries ago was the idea that society could be studied scientifically. The enlightenment encouraged the use of reason to understand the world.