Intro to Sociology/Sociological Imagination

Question 1

Sociology

Answer 1

systematic study of human social life, groups, societies and the social context in which behavior occurs

Question 2

Sociological imagination

Answer 2

Mills
human lives are the intersection of biography and history
personal problems v. public issues

Question 3

personal problems v. public issues

Answer 3

personal problems: occur within the character of the individual and within the range of his immediate relations with others
public issues: have to do with matters that transcend these local environments and have to do with the organizations of the institutions of society as a whole

Question 4

social structure

Answer 4

frameworks that constrain and permit behaviors
underlying regularities and patterns
give societies coherence
“ways in which rules and norms of everyday life become patterns that shape and govern social interactions”

Question 5

social context

Answer 5

the social environments, including economic and cultural conditions, that influence people’s lives

Question 6

social interaction

Answer 6

the way people act together, including how they modify and alter their behavior in the presence of others
governed by norms

Question 7

stereotype

Answer 7

a simplified generalization about a group that is often false or exaggerated
most of them are negative

Question 8

social norms

Answer 8

basic rules of society that help us know what is and is not appropriate to do in a situation
evolve over time as social attitudes and expectations change