SY101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Symbolic Interactionism, Herbert Blumer, Camrose, Alberta
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Sociology: is 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 in. Personal issues: personal challenges that require individual solutions. Social issues: challenges caused by larger social factors that require collective solutions. Quality of mind: mill"s term for ability to view personal circumstance within a social context. Social imagination: mill"s term for ability to perceive how dynamic social forces influence individual lives (understand the dynamic relationship between individual lives and a larger society) Cheerful robots: people who are unwilling or unable to see the social work truly exist. People that do not, or cannot recognize the social origins and character of their problems may be unable to respond to these problems effectively. Personal issues never become social issues because people rarely equate what happening with them with the larger social groups.
