SOCL 2001 : Exam 1
Document Summary
Cotton gins were central to rural life in southern america. Now they are largely abandoned: the sociological imagination, wright mills (1959) coined this phrase, which explained the need to move from away from viewing problems as personal troubles and toward recognizing them as public issues. Drug addiction: social structure, our lives are structured or patterned, in particular, nonrandom, ways. Industries that get produce across the country: goal of sociology: to understand the connections between what society makes of us and what we make of ourselves. Social structure will change as time goes on: what we do both gives shape to and is shaped by society. That is, we structure society and at the same time are structured by society. Something that changed rapidly: death is no longer happens in a house: social structures are dynamic. By 2050, nearly 70 percent of all people will live in urban settings.
