Chapter 1: What Is Sociology?

Question 1

sociological imagination

Answer 1

awareness of the relationship between an individual and society, both past and present
- personal troubles vs public issues

Question 2

sociological imagination was developed by

Answer 2

C. Wright Mills

Question 3

industrial revolution

Answer 3

time of radical change for Western Europe and the U.S.

Question 4

Auguste Comte

Answer 4

study people like natural sciences: observable, testable
- named the study sociology

Question 5

positivism

Answer 5

all real knowledge is based on actual sensory experience