Week 1: The promise of the sociological imagination.

Question 1

What is Sociology’s promise?

Answer 1

its ability to explain the seemingly private lives of individuals by placing
these in the public context of history and society.

Question 2

What are the 3 core themes of 176.101?

Answer 2

1. The social and personal
2. The local and global
3. Differences and divisions

Question 3

What does the ‘social & personal’ theme explore?

Answer 3

How the roles and identities that
individuals inhabit are shaped by the impact of social structures upon the
groups with which they identify.

Question 4

What does the local and global theme address?

Answer 4

Concerns around globalisation as a

newish, but increasingly significant, social process.

Question 5

What does the differences and divisions theme draw attention to?

Answer 5

The fact that

society is made up of a range of social groups that are different from each other.