SOCI 1F90 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: The Sociological Imagination, Merchant Prince, Qualitative Sociology
22 Nov 2016
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The sociological imagination: sociology the systematic study of human groups and their interactions, the sociological perspective-unique way in which sociologist see our world and dissect the dynamic social network in which we live. Even seemingly mundane choices have sociological signi cance. Charles wright and the sociological imagination: charles wright-was one of the most in uential sociologist of all times, mills believed that . We cannot understand one with the other (individual and the social) To explore the connection between the link of the individual and the social, mills highlighted the differences between what he called the personal troubles and the social issues. Many personal troubles never become social issues because people rarely equate their personal troubles with the larger social world. Peter berger : seeing the general in the particular. The ability to look at seemingly unique events and looking at and recognizing the general. Seeing the normal and looking at it strange.
