SOCY 1001 : CH 1-5
Document Summary
They advise not implement: clinical sociology: specific intent of altering social relationships or restructuring social institutions. Asks us to look at our culture as an outsider: put social relations in context, helps in identifying possible responses, connect with other in similar circumstance, mills: both a magnigicent and terrible lesson. , wright mills. Intersection of biography (troubles) and history (issues) within a society: ex. War: when wars happen, an insurance salesman becomes a rocket launcher; a store clerk, a radar man; a wife lives alone; a child grows up without a father. Troubles: occur w/in the character of individual; private matters (micro). Society consists of persistent patterns of relationships and social networks within which we operate. Provides social structure: analogous to building and its structure that supports and shapes it, framework that supports social processes, agency: the freedom to choose and to act. We have agency but our choices and actions are shaped by society.
