Chapter 1: Day 1: Sociological Imagination

Question 1

What is Sociology?

Answer 1

Study of Human Society and how they other people interact or behaves

Question 2

What is Sociological Imagination?

Answer 2

The ability to see the connections between our personal experience and the larger forces of history.

Question 3

Who Came Up with Sociological Imagination?

Answer 3

C. Wright Mills

Question 4

Examples of Sociological Imagination

Answer 4

. Why People Attend College? = Great Career, Earning More Money, Learn New Things.
. If I could watch Spongebob, why other families can’t? = Academic Success, Discipline, Etiquette.
. In US, people eat ketchup on french fries while in Germany, people eat mayonnaise on french fries.

Question 5

What is Sociological Institution?

Answer 5

Consists of a group of people who have come together for a common purpose.

Question 6

Examples of Sociological Institution?

Answer 6

. Education: Daycare Centers, Elementary Schools, College, Universities, Trade Schools, Culinary Academy.
. Health: Hospitals, Dentistry, Psychiatric Ward.

Question 7

5 Majors of Sociological Institution?

Answer 7

Family, Health, Education, Economics, Government.

Question 8

Conventional Wisdom

Answer 8

It refers to all the commonplace ideas and expert opinions that are commonly accepted as true. This is the wisdom that most people agree on and use to make everyday decisions about their lives.

Question 9

Examples of Challenges to Conventional Wisdom

Answer 9

. Education and Earning, the more education, the more money will be earned.
. Family, different merits such as single parents, living with grandparents, orphan.
. Race, It has a meaning to humans. Such as skin color, eye color, and hair color.

Question 10

Social Science

Answer 10

It is where it include disciplines such as psychology, political, and economics. It is where these sciences control the society. The unique sociology looks at the outside of the individual.

Question 11

Who is the first person to come up with Sociology?

Answer 11

August Comte

Question 12

What is Society?

Answer 12

Is just a group of people who share a culture and a culture.

Question 13

What is Sociological Perspectives

Answer 13

They are two things:
. It means seeing the general in the particular.
. It means seeing the strange of the familiar.

Question 14

What is Seeing the general in the particular?

Answer 14

Sociology tries to understand social behavior by placing it in wider social context. It is the individual choice may have been influenced by other people such as class, neighborhood, race, gender, or age.

Question 15

Examples of Seeing the general in the particular

Answer 15

. The declining marriage rate comes from what the individual’s choices come from.
. What causing or having sociological impacts.?

Question 16

What is seeing the strange of the familiar?

Answer 16

To approach everyday or daily world as you’re seeing it for the first time. As you see that you’re from the other world. These questions of why fits into common sense of understanding of society.

Question 17

Examples of seeing the strange of the familiar?

Answer 17

. Why children raise their hands in class but not at the family dinner table?
. If I can make prayers at home or church, why I can't say prayers in school?
. Why you can't wear hats indoors?

Question 18

What is Social Location?

Answer 18

Is a way classifying itself of raising class, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc. It let’s sociologists determine what’s the individual’s common choice of making.