Sociology 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Second Doctor, The Sociological Imagination
3 Nov 2017
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Social networks: ties betw people, groups, and organizations. Society: large group of people living in same area and common culture. Sociology: study of societies and the social world individs within them. The study of what it means to be human. Sociological imagination: ability to think about how personal problems are really social problems shared by many living in similar time and social place ie. debts from student loans: competing demands from divorced parents. Helps ask hard questions and seek answers about the social wolds we inhabit: wight mills. Lets us (cid:862)g(cid:396)asp histo(cid:396)(cid:455) a(cid:374)d (cid:271)iog(cid:396)aph(cid:455) and relations betw the 2 within society. 1. 1. 1 discuss how a sociological imagination helps to challenge stereotypes. Stereotype: making faulty generalizations about individuals based on what we think we know. Sociological imagination challenges stereotypes by asking questions about where they (cid:272)o(cid:373)e f(cid:396)o(cid:373), (cid:449)hat the(cid:455)"(cid:396)e (cid:271)ased o(cid:374), (cid:449)ho (cid:271)e(cid:374)efits f(cid:396)o(cid:373) the(cid:373), a(cid:374)d (cid:449)h(cid:455) the(cid:455) a(cid:396)e ha(cid:396)(cid:373)ful. Engaging our sociological imaginations: from personal puzzles to sociological questions.
