01:920:101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Arab Spring, Scientific Management, Personal Boundaries

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Sociological imagination- enables its processor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals. How individuals can become falsely conscious with there positions. Troubles-occur within the character of the individual and within the range of his immediate relations with others. Troubles lie within the individual as a biographical entity and within the social setting that shapes his/her experience. Issue- ties to a belief, a public matter. Often involves a crisis in institutional arrangements. i. e. high employment from a neighborhood with jobs moving from an urban to rural setting. Analyzing a trouble looks into personal issues i. e. individuals fighting the war. Survive the war or make ones death meaningful. The structural issues of war have to do with causes : what types of men it throws into command, political, economic, religious effects, etc. Typical divisions include gender, ethnic, and class, racial, cultural.