SY101 Chapter Notes -Verstehen, Class Conflict, Public Sociology
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Opens a window into unfamiliar worlds and offers a fresh look at well-known surroundings. The sociological perspective stresses the social contexts in which people live and how these contexts influence their lives. Sociological imagination, coined by c. wright mills, is a way of looking at the world that allows links between the apparently private problems of the individual and important social issues: how people are influenced by their society. Society the group of people with whom they share a culture and territory. To find out why people do what they do, sociologists look at social location: where people are located in a particular society. Occupation, income, education, gender, age, and ethnicity. Although homeless men may appear to be disorganized, anderson and liebow have concluded that these men are influenced by the norms and belief of our society in the same way as other men are. Macrosociology focuses on the broad feature of society: social class and patriarchy.
