SOCI 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Critical Thinking, Social Class, Individualism
9 Jun 2013
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All sociologists rely on three inter-connected skill sets: Core knowledge base is a set of concepts, skills and topics available to all sociologists that enables sociologists to think differently about the world. Most significant aspects of difference and inequality that are studied are: Social construction of reality is a concept introduced by berger and. Luckmann (1966) who argued that human experience (way we understand reality) is shaped by the society in which we live in. Our experience of reality might then be challenged and changed. Social imagination (c. wright mills) is an orientation adopted by a sociologist to recognize and understand the connections between individual experience and larger social structures. It 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. Mills is famous for his the promise essay.
