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Flashcards by Cassandra Castel, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Cassandra Castel
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| 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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