SOC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-5: Canadian Literature, Meritocracy, Erving Goffman
27 Jan 2018
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Sociology: the systematic study of human groups and their interactions. Sociological perspective: the unique way in which sociologists see the world and can dissect the dynamic relationships between individuals and the larger social network that we live in. Suggested that people who cannot/ do not recognize the social origins and character of their problems may be unable to respond to them effectively. A unique personal trouble can only be understood once one takes into account the larger social environment. Quality of mind: the ability to view personal circumstances in a social context. Sociological imagination: the ability to understand the dynamic relationship between individual lives and the larger society. Peter berger: seeing the general in the particular, and the strange in the familiar. The ability to look at unique events and see the larger (general) features involved. Agency: the assumption that individuals have the ability to alter their socially constructed lives.
