Life in Society

Goal 1

What is Sociology?•How would you define the Society you live

in?▫What makes Charlotte unique?▫How do you know what goes on around

Charlotte? The world?•Where is your place/social standing in this

school? Charlotte? World?

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Charlotte Crime…

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Is Charlotte safe? What are your opinions?

You are a Sociologist!?• Social Imagination

• Sociological Perspective

The ability to see your connection with the larger world. (Where is your place?)

Trying to find the hidden meaning of social phenomena…What is the meaning of this!?

C. Wright Mills• Father of Sociology

• Coins “Social Imagination”• Need to have “Social

Interaction” in order to study Sociology

• 1916-1962…what is the issue here?

Branches of Sociology• Anthropology• Psychology• Social Psychology• Economics• Political Science• History

• With a Partner, define these “Social Sciences”.

• What are the Similarities? • Differences?

Questions to Consider…•Why did C. Wright Mills think that a

Sociological Imagination was important to sociology?

•What does a sociologist study?

Case Studies!

Case Study!• Define• Review• Hypothesize• Experiment• Data• Analyze• Conclude

• Much Easier!

Closure!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FZzArGuDzU&feature=related

What is Sociology? Define it in your own words!