-August Comte : french philosopher who named sociology, called it the queen science

-C. W. Miller connecting personal experiences to societal forces (students struggling to afford college)

-sociological eye: ability to notice things in society that others might not be able to

-The sociological eye gives us the ability to recognize the impact society has on us and how the individualistic perspective works to prevent people from noticing that impact.

-sociological imagination: ability to connect occurrences in your life to patterns in society

-fallacy of individualistic perspective: whether we fail or “make it” depends solely on the efforts we put in, aka not taking into account environmental factors

-good generalizations are the basis for theories

-good generalizations : ones backed up by data/evidence

-Albion Smith: founded first sociology department in US, 1869, expressed that sociology is obligated to lead to action (don’t sit around and do nothing guy)

-W.E.B.Du Bois = one of the founders of sociology, used sociological tools to show how society works and to fight racism, first big US research on fighting racism, helped to found the NAACP

-Randal Collins determined 2 main obligations of sociology in the spirit of Small and WEB Du Bois

obligations of sociology: -1: use sociological eye to detect societal patterns -2: notice patterns of injustice and take action to fight them

-paradigms: ways of viewing the world (perspectives)

-social order: how various parts of society work together

-interactions with others influence how we see ourselves