SY103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Alice Hamilton, Florence Kelley, Judith Butler
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The sociological perspective - c. wright mills: sociology possesses the singular perspective to help you understand your private issue as a part of a larger social problem. Becomes advanced when you begin to compare groups: believed that using sociology to promote social reform was an important goal for american sociology. > the sociological perspective stresses the social contexts in which people live and how these contexts in uence their lives. > the sociological imagination is a sociological vision - a way of looking at the world that allows links between the apparently private problems of the individual and important social issues **private becomes public. Macro-sociology vs. micro-sociology: macro-sociology focuses on the broad features of society. > analyzes things such as social class and patriarchy. > macro sociologists say that university students come from different social class backgrounds, micro sociologists focus on how these students handle the resources they have based on their relationships etc.
