Sociology Jan 26
Peter Berger “Sociological Perspective”, “seeing the general in
the particular”
What is Sociology?
Where did it come from?
Social Conditions- realities of life we create through human
interaction, ex: poverty, illegitimacy.
C Wright Mills “Sociological Imagination”
When are we most aware of the social differences around us?
During heightened crisis
1700’s social science-industrial revolution
Large Cities- mass poverty
Auguste Cumte 1798-1857,aka Father of Sociology, Social
Philosopher, “Structural Functionalist perspective” “Sociology-
coined term”
