The Sociological Imagination: Socialization, And Social Relations

1.SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION

CONCEPTUALIZATION

Concept: According to the textbook, the sociological imagination is the skill to know how your own past relates to that of other people, so as well as to history in general and societal structures in particular. The sociological imagination is the ability to see the relationship between large-scale social forces and the actions of individuals. But it includes both the capacity to see relationships between individual biographies and historical change, and capacity to see how social causation operates in societies. So 'sociological imagination ' was coined by the American sociologist Wright Mills in 1960 to describe the type of insight offered by the discipline of sociology. It is used in introductory

If I observe closely, the daily of drinking coffee is greater than the actual act of consuming coffee. Like three people who meet "to have coffee" together. So they are more interested in meeting and talking rather than having coffee. But in society, eating and drinking have become indicated and reasons for social meetings. Also angle to this would be that coffee can be considered as a drug because it contains caffeine that has stimulating effects on the brain. So in some societies, it may be considered as an addiction. It is rather sociologically interesting to know why coffee addicts are not considered to be drug users in some places and societies. In some cultures, some of marijuana is accepted, but consuming coffee are not. It is in some way affected by the global influence and other hidden features of the

It is also helpful to distinguish between status and stratification some examples: stratification by sex , gender race, ethnicity, prestige, social class ,education physical attractiveness might also include religion when referring to Christian versus Muslim and then there is stratification, which applies to nations: preindustrial industrializing industrial post industrial helps

These different models of stratification generate different concepts of how inequality is created and operates in society: functionalism: inequality the 'ladder model of stratification ' for an explanation of why inequality is useful for society. Davis and Moore 's 'the functions of stratification" argument that equal rewards are allotted to different strata of people according to their different levels of talent and their willingness to study and work hard.

In contrast the Conflict theorists point to the major engines generating as the systematic structures of the relationship between

a) those she employ labor and are guided by the profit motive and

b) those with only their labor to sell and