"I remember signing up for my first sociology class. I needed one more course to complete my schedule in my first year of university and my mother suggested that I take sociology. Even though I had never heard of sociology and did not know what it would entail, I took the class. I was forever changed. That course fundamentally altered the way I think about the world around me. Sociology provided me with a lens through which to study and understand our complex society. I learned that, although we all havea lifetime of experiences within society, the importance of that society is often hard to understand because we are so immersed in it. Sociology helped me see how society shaped my life and the world around me. By teaching sociology for many years, I have had the pleasure of helping students discover their sociological imagination, the key lens we use to understand the connection between individuals and society. It is a delight to see them start to use the theories, ideas, and research in our discipline to help make sense of the world around them. We can use these ideas to answer pressing questions such as, "Why is there poverty?" "Why do men and women earn different amounts of money?" "How do race and ethnicity shape our lives?" and "How does social change happen?" This book aims to bring sociology to life"--
Imagining Society: An Introduction to Sociology, Second Edition by Catherine Corrigall-Brown takes readers on a tour, around the world and through time, to learn through encounters with many of the flesh-and-blood individuals whose insights and original thoughts invented sociologyand continue to reinvent it today.
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