SOCA03Y3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Harriet Martineau, Participant Observation, Michel Foucault
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It is a discipline that can be applied to anything. It considers the social world and its implications. It allows for one to be able to check their own assumptions: can be compared to the story of the 5 blind men and the elephant. The 5 blind men believed the elephant to be individual things they could touch and analyze on the surface. However, sociology is not just pieces of intricate details, rather it is mixture & combination of intricate details, and complex ideologies, is what makes sociology into a bigger, and thoughtful subject. Sociological imagination: horace miner"s work body ritual among the nacirema was a society that had a negative relationship with the physical body. Also, they performed body rituals, privately & daily: the practice of body rituals among the nacirema relates to berger"s concept of the strange into familiar.
