SOCI 4670 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: The Sociological Imagination, Welterweight

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 4670
• Professor: Karen Anderson

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1: the promise their everyday worlds, they cannot overcome their troubles. Nowadays people often feel that their private lives are a series of traps. The more aware they become of ambitions and of threats which transcend their. Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel. understanding both. Yet people do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and institutional contradiction. People often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer. 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, in the welter of their daily experience, often become falsely conscious of their social positions.