SOCI 1F90 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Herbert Blumer, George Herbert Mead, Microsociology
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Sociology: the systematic study of human groups and their interactions. Sociological perspective: a view of society based on the dynamic relationships between individuals and the larger social network in which we all live. Was one of the most influential american sociologists of all time. Suggested that people who do not, or cannot, recognize the social origins and character of their problems may be unable to respond to them effectively. For mills, the individual and the social are inextricably linked and we can"t fully understand one without the other. According to mills, many personal troubles never become social issues because people rarely equate what is happening to them with the larger social worlds in which they exist. Not seeing situations of personal failure and such failure as partially, or entirely, the result of social forces is to lack what he called the quality of mind. Personal troubles: personal challenges that require individual solutions.
