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Sociological perspective: the social contexts in which people live and how these contexts influence their lives. Sociological imagination: a way of looking at the world that allows links between the apparently private problems of the individual and important social issues. 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: occupation, income, education, gender, age, ethnicity and sexual orientations. For example, analysis of social class, patriarchy, conflict theory, functionalism and feminism. The goal of these theories is to examine and interpret large-scale social forces that influence people"s conduct in public and private spaces and our reactions to their behaviours. Microsociology: social interaction (what people do when they come together). Symbolic interactionism, queer theory, postmodernism and feminism that emphasize the social construction of gender are all examples.
