Sociological Imagination Flashcards
Social Class Objectives
Social Roles
How we learn to behave and conform to the social expectations
Social Norms
Assumptions of how individuals are meant to interact with each other
Social Power
Power that suggests how society influences our behaviour
Agency
The way our social world is created by individual decisions
Structure
Our decisions are unconscious outcomes of social forces
Differences
Difference between individuals that cannot be prevented
Division
A divide between one or more individuals based on inequalities
Intersectionality
Understanding how complex inequalities are shaped through gender, race and class
Sociological Imagination
The process of being an individual with unique and different personal characteristics shaped by our social structures