1.1 Explain What the Sociological Perspective Is

Question 1

what is sociology?

Answer 1

the systematic study of human groups and their interactions

Question 2

what is the sociological perspective?

Answer 2

unique way sociologists see the world dissecting dynamic relationships between individuals and the larger social network

Question 3

what are personal troubles?

Answer 3

personal challenges requiring individual solutions

Question 4

what are social issues?

Answer 4

issues caused by larger social factors and require collective solutions

Question 5

what is quality of mind?

Answer 5

-a term created by mills

-connection between personal circumstance in a social context

Question 6

what is sociological imagination?

Answer 6

-a term created by mills

-ability to see how social dynamics influence individual lives

Question 7

what are cheerful robots?

Answer 7

individuals seeing the world as black and white rather than gray

Question 8

Peter Berger defined the sociological perspective as the ability to see the world through two complementary perspectives. What are those perspectives?

Answer 8

1. seeing the general in the particular
2. seeing the strange in the familiar

Question 9

what is seeing the general in the particular?

Answer 9

ability to look at what seems familiar and recognize general features

Question 10

what is seeing the strange in the familiar?

Answer 10

when one starts to see the familiar as strange