SOCI 3325 Chapter 1: The Promise

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 3325
• Professor: Detelina Radoeva

Document Summary

The sociological imagination 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. It enables him to take into account how individuals often become falsely conscious of their social positions. The limits of human nature are frighteningly broad. Every individual lives in some society, that he lives out a biography, and he lives it out within. By the fact of his living he contributes to the shaping of this society and to the course. The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations. The sociological imagination is the capacity to shift from one perspective to another. It is the capacity to range from the most impersonal and remote transformations to the most intimate features of the human self--and to see the relations between the two.