Sociology 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-30: The Sociological Imagination, Nacirema, Sexual Intercourse
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Paradigm: a theoretical world view used to explain social phenomena. Emperical: information provided by experience or observation, rather than by theoretical means. He also notes that an individuals place within a society (referred to as biography) lends itself to understanding the whole picture. Milieu: everything happening in one"s environment at a specific time that is of social and cultural significance. Social imagination: enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals. Troubles occur within the character of the individual and within the range of his immediate relations with others, they have to do with his self and with those limited areas of social life. Issues have to do with matters that transcend these local environments of the individual and the range of his inner life.