Sociology notes 2

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-Beginner’s mind posits that our greatest obstacle to making new discoveries is our habitual way of thinking “Discovery is not the seeing of a new thing—but rather a new way of seeing things” -McGrane Culture Shock -another way to gain sociological perspective is through culture shock Culture shock: a sense of disorientation that occurs when entering a radically new social or cultural environment -normal behaviors in one society or culture may seem very strange in another, and putting all judgment aside allows us to truly perceive what we are experiencing -when applied to our daily lives, we can see what is familiar to us, if viewed from an outsider’s perspective, is just as exotica’s some foreign culture The Sociological Imagination Sociological Imagination: a quality of the mind that allows us to understand the relationship between our individual circumstances and larger social forces -C. Wright Mills coined this term and said that to understand social life, we must understand “the intersection between biography and history” -the sociological imagination searches for the link between micro and macro levels of analysis; it allows us to see the connection between particular situations in our lives and something happening at a broader social level -one of the most important benefits is access to the world beyond our own immediate sphere, where we can discover radically different ways of experiencing life and interpreting reality Levels of Analysis -sociological perspectives have different levels of analysis that give us different ways of looking at a common subject Microsociology: the level of analysis that studies face-to-face and small-group interactions in order to understand how they affect the larger patterns and structures of society Macrosociology: the level of analysis that studies large-scale social structures in order to determine how they affect the lives of groups and individuals

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