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Overview of These Notes
• What is sociology and the sociological imagination
• A Social Riddle– Why do Western
Societies dominate other Societies throughout the World?
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Chapter One: The Sociological Perspective and Research Process• Sociology is the systematic study of human
society and social interaction• Why Study Sociology?
– Sociology helps us see connections between our lives and the larger recurring patterns of the society and world
– Sociology often reveals limitations of myths associated with commonsense knowledge that guides ordinary conduct in everyday life
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Chapter One: The Sociological Perspective and Research Process• Society is a large grouping that shares
the same territory and is subject to the same political authority dominant cultural expectations
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C. Wright Mills “The Promise”•
1916-1962Published in 1959
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Mills was Considered a Radical
• His Personal Behavior
• His Academic Work
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What is the Sociological Imagination?
The intersection of Biography and History
• Biography– Experiences and Attributes
• History– Society in its Historical Context
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What is the Sociological Imagination?
Three Questions Relevant to the Sociological Imagination
• How are activities patterned in a society?
• Where does this society stand in human history?
• What varieties of people are produced in this society?
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What is the Sociological Imagination?
Personal Troubles and Public Issues• Troubles are private matters limited
to the aspects of daily life of which people are directly aware
• Public Issues are forces outside of the control of most people– Business cycles– National policy– Values and religious traditions
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Mills was fascinated by the process in which “personal troubles” became recognized as “public issues.”
• He wondered how do people define their personal conditions – Realization of impersonal forces– Losing the feeling of inadequacy?– False Consciousness
• Mills thought that this process was important for societies in generating social change
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The Sociological Imagination
• The distinction between personal troubles (biography) and public issues (history)
• Developing our own sociological imagination means we have to account for perspectives of people from diverse backgrounds– The world’s high income countries have developed
industrialized and advanced economies – low income countries are still agrarian
– We have to think about other countries because our future is intertwined with other nations
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Jared Diamond “The Fate of Human Societies”
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Guns, Germs, and Steel• Western Societies become dominate because
– They have more natural materials to work with in the domestication of wild grains
– The latitude of Western Societies means domesticated grains and animals can easily be transferred over large areas
– Domestication of animals leads to human exposure to disease and through natural selection, disease resistance
– Western Societies explore and colonize other societies because of technology advances – due to earlier starts with agriculture and related developments
– Non-Western Societies are decimated by diseases the people in Western Societies carry, but have developed resistance to over hundreds of years.