SOCIOL 4HH3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Post-Marxism, Symbolic Interactionism, Ethnomethodology
24 Apr 2020
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Sociological imagination (cw mills): the ability to relate ones life with society as a whole and the capacity to shift views from the personal to the public. Troubles: happen w/in the character of the ind and w/in the range of his immediate relations w other. Fall under realm of microsociology which is concerned w face-to-face encounters and the details of communication and human interaction. Ethnomethodology (garfinkle): peoples way of making sense of the social world. If we become aware of our own social constructions then we can also break out of self destructive habits by knowing ourselves. The family is the primary group of socialization inds in childhood come to id emotionally sig others in their lives that they come to internalize social norms and values. She studied social psychology bc she wanted to learn. Because it would give her extra time to extend childhood.
