Culture .. What is culture? Aspects of culture.. Ethnocentrism
SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATIONS The sociological imaginations enables us the possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals.
SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATIONS Enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within the society.
SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATIONS
TROUBLES .. Occur within the character of the individual and within the range of his immediate relations with others, they have to do with his self and with those limited areas of social life of which heis directly and personally aware.
ISSUES.. Have to do with matters that transcend these local environments of the individual and the range of his inner life. They have to do with the organization of many such milieux overlap and interpenetrate to form the larger structure of social and historical life
Social imaginations Poverty Overpopulation Unemployment
Sociological approaches to the study of society STRUCTURAL-FUNCTIONAL APPROACH View society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability
ROBERT K. MERTON MANIFEST FUNCTIONS – Intended consequences of any social pattern LATENT FUNCTIONS - Unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern SOCIAL DYSFUNCTION- Social pattern that nay disrupt the operation of society
SOCIAL CONFLICT APPROACH Sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change
SYMBOLIC-INTERACTION Approach Sees society as the product of the everyday interactions of individual
MACRO and MICRO level Macro – broad focus on social structures that shape societys a whole Micro – A close-up focus on social interaction in a specific situations