Sociological imagination

The Sociological Imagination

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Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist & philosopher. He pioneered investigative frameworks & concepts such as cultural, social & symbolic capital, & habitus, field, & symbolic violence.

George H. Mead is positioned as 1 of the founders of the SI (Symbolic interactionism) perspective in sociology. Mead described the social self & its development through childhood. According to Mead children are eventually able to take on different roles & make a basic distinction between the self & the other. They must also develop a complex understanding of the multiple roles others play, for they must be able to recognize and anticipate how others will behave in a given situation.

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

It's at least a subject that you've studied.

C. Wright Mills: "I don't always have personal troubles, but when I do, I prefer connecting them to public issues"

This pin looks at the ways a personal trouble can be a larger issue using our sociological imagaination

Levels of social context

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What can you do with a sociology degree? http://www.thesociologicalcinema.com/4/post/2013/12/what-can-i-do-with-a-sociology-degree-a-video-exploration.html

The sociological imagination.

Durkheim made innumerable contributions to the young discipline of sociology, but he is most often lauded for his demonstration that even a personal act, such as suicide, is powerfully shaped by social forces. [click on this image to find a clip that can be used to elucidate Durkheim's discussion of the sacred and profane]

Max and Marianne Weber ideal type meme #sociology

Marx // Weber // Durkheim // Sociology

Glass looking self. this picture shows that the persons self adapts different roles and personalities while socially interacting with others. The character in the picture shows her self reflecting as devil, angle, smart and cute.

Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.

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