SYG-1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Metanarrative, Contemporary Sociology, George Herbert Mead
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Social imagination the application of imaginative thought to the asking and answering of sociological questions. Someone using the sociological imagination thinks himself ways from the familiar routines of daily life. Each of us lives in a very small orbit and each of our worldview is limited but the social interactions we encounter. Gives rise to a limited perspective/ point of view. We need a certain quality of mind that makes it possible for us to see the big picture. To see our problems in the light of the larger going-ons. Social structure the underlying regularities or patterns in how people behave in their relationships with one another. Sociology teaches us that in many ways we are freer than we think that the things we think are natural are actually created by human beings. Social construction an idea or practice that a group of people agree exists. It is maintained overtime by people taking its existence for granted.
