Chapter 1: sociological imagination

Question 1

What is Sociology?

Answer 1

the study of human society, social life, and consequences of human behaviour

Question 2

What can sociologists explain?

Answer 2

phenomena at the structural level,
they study patterns that emerge in human social interaction.

Question 3

Macrosociology

Answer 3

looking at the big pictures. By country state or city

Question 4

microsociology

Answer 4

looking at the small group level

Question 5

Summary

Answer 5

sociology is a social science that is focused on study patterns in human behaviour. Lots of people “ see social patterns and make a decision on how accurate it is.

Question 6

What does the term “Intersection of History & Biology” mean

Answer 6

asks us to understand the influence of social forces on our ind lives.

Question 7

Who coined the term “ Intersection of History & Biology”

Answer 7

C. Wright Mills

Question 8

Sociological magination

Answer 8

able to see them, put yourself in their shoes

Question 9

Perspective

Answer 9

seeing why they are in that place