Sociological Imagination
The term for the life story of an individual person
What is biography?
This term refers to sociology's focus on humans and relationships.
What is social?
The study of structures, patterns, and processes of human relations.
What is sociology?
The term used to describe the tendency to overlook the impact of social forces in other's lives.
What is the Fundamental Attribution Error?
What is history?
This term refers to sociology's use of theory and research methods.
What is science?
These phenomena are the substance of sociological theory and observance.
What are social problems?
Personal troubles can turn into these issues.
What is public?
Terms used to describe the insider and outsider perspective, borrowed from anthropology.
What is emic and etic?
The intersection of these two concepts inform the sociological imagination.
What is biography and history?
Described humans as "herd animals."
Who is Karl Marx?
The theorist of the sociological imagination
Who is C. Wright Mills?
The three main approaches to theoretical sociology
What is structural functionalism, symbolic interactionism, and conflict theory?