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    The Sociological Imagination: Atty. Reyaine A. Mendoza

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    The sociological imagination is the ability to see how individual experiences are influenced by broader social forces and historical contexts. It connects private troubles, like losing a job, to larger societal issues. Sociology is defined as the study of society and culture. It examines how society is structured through institutions, organizations, and the shared way of life or culture of a group of people living within territorial boundaries. Foundational theorists like Durkheim, Marx, and Weber helped establish sociology as a discipline focused on understanding these relationships between individuals and society.

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    The sociological imagination is the ability to see how individual experiences are influenced by broader social forces and historical contexts. It connects private troubles, like losing a job, to larger societal issues. Sociology is defined as the study of society and culture. It examines how society is structured through institutions, organizations, and the shared way of life or culture of a group of people living within territorial boundaries. Foundational theorists like Durkheim, Marx, and Weber helped establish sociology as a discipline focused on understanding these relationships between individuals and society.

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    The sociological imagination is the ability to see how individual experiences are influenced by broader social forces and historical contexts. It connects private troubles, like losing a job, to larger societal issues. Sociology is defined as the study of society and culture. It examines how society is structured through institutions, organizations, and the shared way of life or culture of a group of people living within territorial boundaries. Foundational theorists like Durkheim, Marx, and Weber helped establish sociology as a discipline focused on understanding these relationships between individuals and society.

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    THE SOCIOLOGICAL

    IMAGINATION
    ATTY. REYAINE A. MENDOZA
    BASIC CONCEPT IN SOCIOLOGY

    Coined by C. Wright Mills in his book the sociological imagination


    It is the intersection between biography and history
    The ability to connect between private matters to broader historical conditions
    Employment (losing job) is a personal matter/problem
    DEFINING SOCIOLOGY

    • The etymological and literal definition of sociology is the word or speaking


    about society
    • A simple definition here is that it is the study of society and culture
    DEFINING SOCIOLOGY

    • Concept of SOCIETY AND CULTURE are central in the subject of Sociology


    • However the two concepts have different meanings:
    a. Society generally refers to the social world with all its
    structures, institutions, organizations, etc around us, and
    specifically to a group of people who live within some type of bounded
    territory and who share a common way of life.
    b. This common way of life shared by a group of people is termed as Culture
    DEFINING SOCIOLOGY

    • Although the term “sociology” was first used by the French social philosopher
    August Comte, the discipline was more firmly established by such theorists as
    Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber

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