SOCIOL 1Z03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Forces, Harold Innis, Auguste Comte

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1Z03
• Professor: Lina Samuel

Document Summary

Sociology is the systematic study of human groups and their interactions. Sociology studies how and why human beings interact and by doing so attempts to understand how to confront social issues such as poverty. Mills"s concept of the sociological imagination through personal examples: w. mills was one of the most influential american sociologists of all time. He suggests that people who do not, or cannot, recognize the social origins and character of their problems may be unable to respond to them effectively. Failed to see how individual challenges are influenced by larger social forces diminishes a persons ability to understand and resolve them. General & particular: seeing the general in the particular is the ability to look at seemingly unique events or circumstances and then recognize the larger (or general) features involved. For example, think about the last time you saw a street person asking people for spare change.