ECON 2000 Chapter : Assignment 2 Pt 3
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1/22/2014 3:26:00 pm: systematic study of social interaction at a variety of levels, interaction bw groups, nations, wars, variety of levels, macro & micro, how society helps construct our personality and behavior. Sociological imagination: coined by c. wright mills, ability to see the connections bw individual lives and larger social influences, affects you views on love, school, religion, sports teams, your region & location influences personality and perception. Job less, going into debt, ppl w/ financial issues are more likely to get divorced: micro: Two ppl who don"t agree with one another. Lazy and don"t want to go to work. Origins: theory: statements that explains why a phenomenon occurs, guide our research & offer solutions to social problems, can change over time, based on empirical information, info based on observation or experiments or experiences, help produce knowledge. Auguste comte: father of sociology, believed the study of society should be empirical (based on obersvation) rather than ideology or religion or intuition.
