Does absence make the heart grow fonder? Out of Sight; out of mind?
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The Sociological Imagination
The Forest or the Trees
Sociology v. Common Sense
Does absence make the heart grow fonder?
Or….
Out of Sight; out of mind?
Do…
Birds of a feather flock together?
Or…
Opposites attract?
Problems:
“What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited to the close up scenes of job, family, neighborhood; in other milieu, they move vicariously and remain spectators.”
C. Wright Mills
The Sociological Imagination
What is the Sociological Imagination?
Allows us to see the relationship between the individual and society
Ability to stretch your imagination to things you may have not directly experienced or to more abstract concepts
“Verstehen”
Benefits of Sociology
Helps overcome short-sightedness Leads to “de-bunking” of faulty
information Allows us to see opportunities and
constraints in our lives Allows us to be active participants in our
world Allows us to live in a diverse in changing
world
Example:
Suicide
Emile Durkheim▪ Egoistic▪ Altruistic▪ Anomic▪ Fatalistic
Led to…
Social Facts External to the individual Have coercive power of the individual Transcend time