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... Wright Mills
Sociological Imagination
-requires us to think ourselves away from the familiar routines of our daily life in order to look at them anew.
-refers to our ability to break ourselves free from our particular circumstances and see our social world is a new, broader light
Public issues
-matters that transcend the local environments of the individual
Personal troubles
-happen within the individual, unaware to others
History
-Where does society stand in the midst of history? ...
Society
-a group of people who live in a certain place, who are governed by certain rules and have a distinct identity from other groups.
Peter Berger
Goals of Sociology
-to produce knowledge
-an attempt to understand the world in an objective way
Norms- prescriptions serving as common guidelines for social actions, backed by sanctions
Norms are:
-external to the person, last more than the moment
-have an appearance of objectivity
-coercive, can go from light to heavy
Foreground
-norms that require pondering, thought, thinking about
Background
-norms that require no pondering, deeply embedded in our consciousness
Institutions
-groups of normative patterns of thought, behavior and social actions. Enable and constrain us, provide a stable pattern to our world
Worldview
-universal meaning system in which you locate yourself
-set of beliefs constituting your outlook on the world
-different views depending where you are in society
-the world you take for granted
-“of course” statements are part of your worldview
-to doubt the “of course” statements is to doubt your social reality
-different worldviews would dictate different laws
Emile Durkheim
Social facts
-enable, constrain peoples action
-norms
-globilization
-social structure
-independent thought of the individual, wills of individuals
-concrete, autonomous – can see the effects
-intangible-can’t physically handle them
-aspects of social life that shape our actions as individuals
Social solidarity
-cohesion, holds society together
-mechanical- exists when members of a small traditional community are held together b/c of their similarities(small hunter/gatherer groups)
-organic-cohesion that arises from high division of labor differences that work together(e.
Approximate Word count = 1051
Approximate Pages = 4.2
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