SOCI 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: The Sociological Imagination, Once Human, Wilhelm Dilthey
8 Oct 2013
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Core sociological knowledge base a set of fundamental concepts, skills, and topics that enables sociologists to think differently about the world. Many sociologists believe that what members of a society experience (and they way they are interpreted and understood), those experiences are socially constructed. One of the core concepts that male up the sociological perspective is the social construction of reality. The social construction of reality is shown through the example of a frog. There is a large difference between the world a frog sees" and what a human sees". It would starve to death if flies that were not moving surrounded it. A frog flees his enemies by jumping towards areas of darkness. Human beings are not like frogs because we cannot exist for long in isolation, in a world that is self- reflexive only. We are all born into a society that is itself a product of human activity.
