Class Announcements

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Class Announcements

• T.A. Office hours the week of April 14-18 In
  Room 225, Dept. of Sociology, 725 Spadina Ave. SE
  corner of Bloor and Spadina
• Tracy MatsuoMonday April 14.   10a.m to 1 p.m.
• Leslyn Lewis (e-mail l.lewis_at_utoronto.ca)Tuesday
  , April15th 12 to 2 p.m.
• Wednesday April 16 12 to 3 p.m.Thursday, April
  17, 1 to 3 p.m..
• All four T.A.s are available by appointment
  outside of these times.

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The Sociological Imagination Increasing
Self-Understanding

• 1.) What are the structures of my society like?
• How is my society organized and how does it
  operate?
• How is it similar to and different from other
  societies?

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The Sociological Imagination Increasing
Self-Understanding

• 2.) Where does my society fit into the broader
  picture of human history?
• How does the history of my society influence its
  current organization?
• What are the most important aspects of the
  current historical epoch?
• Where does my society seem to be going?

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The Sociological Imagination Increasing
Self-Understanding

• 3.) How do the structures of my society and the
  historical period of which I am a part influence
  me and those around me?
• What social and historical forces have shaped
  and moulded my character and personality?

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Durkheim and the Sociological Perspective

• Patterns of social relations determine human
  action (not God, not nature)
• Ideas about the connection between social
  relations and human action must be based on
  evidence (not speculation, not commonsense)
• Human action can change society

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The Sociological Imagination C. Wright Mills

• The ability to see
• the connection between personal troubles and
  public issues.
• the connection between biography, social
  relations and historical change.