socialogical imagination Flashcards
what is the socialogical imagination?
S.I is the essential connection between self and Society
- How does employing the sociological imagination help me understand myself and my society?
one can evalute the different social intersections and the factors that come along with them and how it affects their life in comparison to another and why this is the case.
What are the different aspects of S.I
biography (one own story and life situation), History and society ( of economical development and equity)
what is normativity?
Normative generally means relating to an evaluative standard. Normativity is the phenomenon in human societies of designating some actions or outcomes as good, desirable, or permissible, and others as bad, undesirable, or impermissible This leads to the moral insensibility that demands a certain “quality of mind to understand whats going on
How are the troubles and issues one goes through relate to a institutional level? (the private becomes public)
The owns problems can reflect the ongoing or ingrained issues that are happening in society which act as a catalyst for these issues.
Example: poverty causes some people to resort to drug abuse or alcholism which becomes a individual case
What does this quote mean?
“Man’s chief danger’ today lies in the unruly forces of contemporary society itself, with its alienating methods of production, its eveloping techniques of political domination, its international anarchy—in a word, its pervasive transformations of the very nature’ of man and the conditions and aims of his life.” (pg. 12)
what are the 2 cultures that Mills is referring too?
sciencie and humanity
What is the failure of Science in Mills opinion?
science is used for the sake of profit rather than for humanity as a whole
what is the failure of humanities teachings?
the things we learn in humanities is based on normativity and the norms that are reinforced rather than thinking outside of normativity c
How does one reflect on oneself and one’s society if the very capacity for reasoning is overwhelmed by emotivism?
