Sociological imagination lecture 1

"the awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society"
Thinking away from one's usual day-to-day life and look at the world in a new way.  Is know as: 

• Sociological Perspective 
• Sociological Imagination 
• conflict perspective
• functionalist perspective

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood with out understanding both. 
Who is responsible for this quote?

• Alexander Hamilton 
• Thomas Pain 
• C. Wright Mills

Taking yourself out of society and looking at it from an alien's point of view is ___________________.

• Sociological Perspective 
• Sociological Imagination 
• conflict perspective
• functionalist perspective

The sociological perspective only studies an individual’s behavior. 

• True
• False

Sociologists conduct research to gain knowledge

• true
• false

The scientific study of social structure; patterned social behavior

• Sociology
• Assumption
• Conformity
• Perspective

a way of looking at a situation; a  viewpoint

• sociological imagination
• conformity
• Perspective
• conventional social wisdom

Sociological Imagination

• The ability to see the link between society and self
• A particular point of view
• The belief that knowledge should be derived from scientific observation.

Recognized as the founder of Sociology

• Max Weber
• Emile Durkheim
• Auguste Comte
• Karl Marx

Sociological imagination is what Sociologists use to imagine what could happen in the future

• True
• False