SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Talcott Parsons, Harriet Martineau, Social Fact

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Nathan Innocente

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The sociological imagination: social structures, patterns of social relation affect your innermost thoughts + feelings, influence actions, help shape who you are, social structure stable patterns of social relations, c. wright mills. Sociologist"s main task is to identify and explain the social structures between people"s personal troubles and the social structures in which they are embedded. He called it the sociological imagination: the quality of mine that enables one to see the connection between personal troubles and social structures, four levels of social structures surround us: Microstructures patterns of intimate social relations formed during face-to-face interactions (ex. Mesostructures patterns of social relations in organizations that involve people who are not intimately related/who often to not interact face-to-face (ex. Macrostructures overarching patterns of social relations that lie outside and above one"s circle of intimates and acquaintances (ex. Global structures level of society that surrounds and permeates us (ex.