Flashcards
Sociology
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- 1sociological imaginationgrasp history and biography and the relations
between the two within society - 2How 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.
- 3How 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.
- 41st lesson of the social sciencewe 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 - 5What 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? - 6Troublesoccur within the character of the individual and within the range of his
immediate relations with others - 7Troubles (2)A trouble is a private matter: values cherished by an
individual are felt by him to be threatened. - 8Issuesmatters that transcend
these local environments of the individual
and the range of his inner life - 9well beingWhen people cherish some set of values and do not feel any threat to them
- 10crisisWhen they cherish values but
do feel them to be threatened, either as a personal trouble or
as a public issue - 11The signal feature of our periodThe condition of uneasiness and indifference
- 12sociologythe study of human society
- 13thinking like a sociologistapplying analytical tools to things you have done without much thought
"making the familiar strange: - 14—