01:920:101 Study Guide - Labeling Theory, Corporate Crime, Barbara Ehrenreich
26 Sep 2013
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Chapter 1: the sociological imagination, a quality of mind that allows people to see how remote and impersonal social forces shape their life story of biography. Biography is day to day activities from birth to death. French sociologist that defined social facts as ideas, feeling, and ways of behaving that possess the remarkable property of existing outside the consciousness of the individual : words and gestures people use to impose thoughts. The state of affairs with regard to some way of being. The intensity of these currents is broadly reflected in rates summarizing behaviors like marriage, suicide or birth rates. Berger says that the wish to look inside and learn more is analogous to the sociological perspective. Berger points out that sociologists are driven to debunk the social systems they study. Sociologists distinguish between troubles, which can be resolved by changing the individual, and issues, which can be resolved only by addressing the social forces that created them.
