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Chapter 02 - Sociological Imagination - 6 views

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Imagination Sociological

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  • The national cost of a gallon of gas, the War in the Middle East, the repressed economy, the trend of having too few females in the 18-24 year old singles market, and the ever-increasing demand for plastic surgery are just a few of the social facts at play today
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 14 Dec 11
       
      Social facts are experiences as 'outside' of an individual's control. 
  • but we rarely find a way to significantly impact them back.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 14 Dec 11
       
      They impact us but we don't (or very rarely) have an impact on them.
  • False Social Conscious which  is an ignorance of social facts and the larger social picture.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 14 Dec 11
       
      Do you think teens live this way...ignorant of social facts?
    • Joe Inhaber
      Joe Inhaber on 15 Dec 11
       
      Absolutely i think that teens live by the following : Ignorance is bliss. And can you blame them? Can you blame any one that thinks this way for that matter. In a sense i wish i could be ignorant to problems present in society because I A) Wouldn't feel so threatened by things i cant control and B) I wouldn't feel morally or ethically at fault for the decisions of my nation.
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  • real power of the sociological imagination is found in how you and I learn to distinguish between the personal and social levels in our own lives
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 14 Dec 11
       
      This is the reason that this sociological imagination is important.  How does this resemble Sam Richard's idea of 'radical empathy'?
    • Marie-Lise Pagé
      Marie-Lise Pagé on 15 Dec 11
       
      I think that it relates because the more you understand the social facts, the more you'll have sociological imagination and the more you'll have radical empathy.
    • adam unikowski
      adam unikowski on 15 Dec 11
       
      people can be selfish and only think about themselves. then there are the people that care about about other people and try to imagine what if they had the same problems for example there family
    • Chrissy Le
      Chrissy Le on 15 Dec 11
       
      Social facts and personal troubles relate with each other. Sometimes things such as our environment can affect our "personal troubles" such as, obesity, depression, poverty, etc. 
    • Lauren Ganze
      Lauren Ganze on 15 Dec 11
       
      It resembles radical empathy in the fact that they both require a person to be able to recognize social facts.
    • kelsey sazant
      kelsey sazant on 15 Dec 11
       
      These two things are intertwined because many of out personal trouble is caused by these social facts that we are powerless against.
    • Joe Inhaber
      Joe Inhaber on 15 Dec 11
       
      I think that this relates because in a sense, we all need to know whats really going on even if it isn't necessarily things that are reported on our daily news channels. I think the relation is that we need to learn to think about things that we wouldn't nesceseraly like to be true, much like how most people find it uneasy to step into the shoes of Iraqi war prisoners.
    • Alyssa Cohen
      Alyssa Cohen on 15 Dec 11
       
      Personal troubles and social facts are very closely related. If you have a sociological imagination, you can see the social facts in different situations or different parts of the world, which makes you more understanding. That is where the radical empathy ties in.
    • Jake Izenberg
      Jake Izenberg on 15 Dec 11
       
      They share the same thought of looking at the situation from another perspective. "Putting yourself in their shoes". Radical empathy plays an important role, it allows us to see how they feel. 
    • mariakanarakis
      mariakanarakis on 15 Dec 11
       
      Social facts and personal problems are related in some kind of way. Radical empathy is the relationship and getting to understand the difference between you and other people. 
    • Karleen Muhlegg
      Karleen Muhlegg on 15 Dec 11
       
      By understanding empathy and the sociological imagination, we become a step closer in having a much broader, educated and compassionate picture of the world we live in, all six billion of us. 
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 15 Dec 11
       
      It resembles the idea because you must be open to put yourself in the other peoples shoes and to understand the bigger picture and that includes understanding the different players in the games
    • sydney goldman
      sydney goldman on 15 Dec 11
       
      Theres a fine difference between social facts and sociological imagination and both are believed to change us into the people we are today. However, in order to understand not only the way in which you are personally effected but how the other societies are effected by there own sociological imagination/social facts. rational empathy come into play when we begin to understand the social facts of the people that your own personal fats have taught you to be bling too.
    • michelle tappert
      michelle tappert on 15 Dec 11
       
      They ressemble each other because in both, they require a person to be aware and take into account the social facts. 
    • Talya Freidman
      Talya Freidman on 15 Dec 11
       
      Social imagination and radical empathy relate because you need to understand social facts to have radical empathy. 
  • C. Wright Mills (1916-1962
  • neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both"
  • Troubles”
  • Issues"
  • 50 percent of all college students in the country never graduate, we call that a larger social issue.
  • Does sociology provide personal and larger social insight
  • Be aware of the three-strike issue
  • Know which factors you can control
  • larger social factors that have historically contributed to these patterns
  • brief spike in divorce after World War II
  • It was the highest rate of marriages, highest rate of births (The Baby Boom began in 1946
  • ivorce rates surged in 1946 as all the soldiers returned home having been changed by the trauma, isolation from their families,  and challenges of the war
  • Divorces tended to follow wars
  • Divorces continue to be high during economic prosperity
  • ecline during economic hardships.
  • abundance of single women
  • urban
  • Scientists have never identified a “cause” for divorce.  But, they have clearly identified risk factors.
  • enslaved to those force
  • They still impact you, and you can follow Mill’s ideas and manage as best you can within your power concerning consequences of these forces
  • Marie-Lise Pagé on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
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  • adam unikowski on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Chrissy Le on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Lauren Ganze on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • kelsey sazant on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Joe Inhaber on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Alyssa Cohen on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Jake Izenberg on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • mariakanarakis on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Karleen Muhlegg on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Alex Maguid on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • sydney goldman on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • michelle tappert on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Talya Freidman on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
Marie-Lise Pagé

Edge: ARE HUMAN BRAINS UNIQUE? By Michael Gazzaniga - 2 views

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humans mind unique mind brains

shared by Marie-Lise Pagé on 13 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Be well, do good work, and keep in touch
  • a simple sentiment yet so full of human complexity. Other apes don't have that sentiment.
    • Marie-Lise Pagé
      Marie-Lise Pagé on 13 Dec 11
       
      It really shows us how something can be so normal to us when, in fact, it is complex and it's unique to us.
  • We did evolve and we are what we are through the forces of natural selection.
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  • All of us solve problems effortlessly and routinely.
  • We want to see our dogs charm us, appeal to our emotions, imagine they too can suffer and have pity, love and hate and all the rest
  • our brain parts can be replaced with silicon parts
  • Thousands of scientists and philosophers over hundreds of years have either recognized this uniqueness of ours or have denied it
  • Even though we have all of these connections with the biologic world from which we came, and we have in some instances similar mental structures, we are hugely different.
  • Marie-Lise Pagé on 13 Dec 11
     
    This is an interview with Micheal Gazzaniga who is one of the world's  leading neuroscientists. He really explains some of the unique features of our brains.
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