SOCL 2001 Chapter : Sociology Ch 1
Document Summary
Sociological imagination: a point of view that allows u to identify seemingly remote and impersonal social forces and connect them to out biographies. Biography: all the day-to-day activities from birth to death that make up a person"s. Social facts: ideas, feelings, and ways of behaving that possesses remarkable properties of existing outside the consciousness of the individual. Issue: problem that can only be explained by factor"s out side of a person"s. Sense experience" or knowing the world through senses of touch, taste, smell, and immediate control. Mechanization: process or replacing human and animal muscles as a source of power w/ external sources coming from derived wood, coal, oil, and natural gas. Positivism: theory stating that valid knowledge abt the world can begin only from. Currents of opinion: the state of affairs with regard to some way of being. Troubles: personal problems, needs, or difficulties that can be explained as personal shortcomings related to motivation, attitude and ability.
