SOCY 101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Murray Bookchin, Jane Addams, Double Consciousness
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Sociological imagination ability to connect most basic, intimate aspects of an ind. "s life to impersonal and historical forces. Concept created by c. wright mills who said sociological imagination requires combo of. Enables us to take into account how individuals become falsely conscious of their social positions. Social institutions complex group of interdependent positions that perform a social role and reproduce themselves over time. Shaper behavior of groups or people w/in it. Structure vs. agency agency = free will, capacity of ind to act on their own; structure = Social forces, social control (laws inhibit people, even if not everyone always follows them) French scholar who invited social physics and positivism in 19th century. Wanted to make moral sense of social order. Argued human society had gone through three historical stages: 1. Scholars consult bible or religious text in order to understand god"s plan: 2. Enlightenment thinkers saw humankind"s behavior as governed by natural, biological instincts.
