SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Herbert Blumer, Qualitative Sociology, Emo
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Sociology: the systematic study of human groups and their interactions sociological perspective: a view of society based on the dynamic relationships between individuals and the larger social network in which we all live. Charles wright mills: said that people who do not recognize the social origins and character of their problems may be unable to understand and resolve them (individual and social are linked) Personal troubles: personal challenges that require individual solutions. Social issue: challenges causes by larger social factors that require collective solutions. E. x of personal trouble doing poorly on exams but can be a social issue if the entire class did poorly on the exam. Accord to mills many personal troubles never become social issues because people don"t equate what is happening to them with the larger social world. Cheerful robots: people who are unwilling or unable to see the social world as it truly exists. Peter berger: seeing the strange in the familiar .
