Sociology

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sociological imagination grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society
How are "private troubles" and "public issues" connected? Public issues such as poverty and a poor economy are the cause of private troubles such as homelessness or job loss.
How do people feel trapped by their lives? People live the in private orbs of their lives, heir environment and upbringing affected by factors of location and culture. However, once they start examining a more global world view and their place within it, they start to fell more trapped.
1st lesson of the social science we can only understand ourselves and gauge our own fate by locating our-self within our time. That we can only know our own chances in life by becoming aware of those of all individuals in similar situations
What are three questions that the best socialist have asked? 1. What is the structure of this particular society as a whole? 2. Where does this society stand in human history? 3. What varieties of men and women now prevail in this society and in this period?
Troubles occur within the character of the individual and within the range of his immediate relations with others
Troubles (2) A trouble is a private matter: values cherished by an individual are felt by him to be threatened.
Issues matters that transcend these local environments of the individual and the range of his inner life
well being When people cherish some set of values and do not feel any threat to them
crisis When they cherish values but do feel them to be threatened, either as a personal trouble or as a public issue
The signal feature of our period The condition of uneasiness and indifference
sociology the study of human society
thinking like a sociologist applying analytical tools to things you have done without much thought "making the familiar strange:
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