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42%

Introduction to

Sociology

Dr. William Taylor

51%

of community college students are food insecure

of community college are housing insecure

of community college students are homeless

Student Support Center, IMC 124 (423-697-4483)

  • Counseling Services
  • Food Pantry
  • Clothing Bank
  • Emergency Fund
  • Learning Support
  • Disabilities

12%

Basic needs insecurities disproportionately affect marginalized students and are associated with long work hours and higher risk of unemployment. However, the level of academic effort--in and outside the classroom--is the same regardless of whether or not students are dealing with food and housing insecurity.

TRAPPED

You know they got me trapped in this prison of seclusion

Happiness, living on the streets is a delusion

Even a smooth criminal one day must get caught

Shot up or shot down with the bullet that he bought

Nine millimeter kickin' thinking about what the streets do to me

Too many brothers daily heading for the big pen

[ people ] commin' out worse off then when they went in

There must be another route, way out

To money and fame, I changed my name

And played a different game

Tired of being trapped in this vicious cycle

Society, why did ya lie to me?

I couldn't find a trace of equality

Work me like a slave while they laid back

Homie don't play that

- Tupac Amaru Shakur

Trapped

Nowadays men and women often feel that their private lives are a series of traps. They sense that within their everyday worlds, they cannot overcome their troubles, and in this feeling, they are often quite correct: What ordinary people are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited to

the close-up scenes of job, family, neighborhood; in other mile , they move vicariously and remain spectators. And the more aware they become, however vaguely, of ambitions and of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.

C. Wright Mills

The Sociological Imagination (1959)

or Biography and History

To understand our society do we need more information?

or better questions . . .

What is the structure of this particular society?

Where does it stand in history?

What varieties of men and women prevail?

Pace of Change

Key Concepts

  • Sociological Imagination
  • Biography and History
  • Personal troubles and Public Issues

Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan (1957)

SOCIOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS

"Like a splinter in your mind"

.... the more aware they become, however vaguely, of ambitions and of

threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.

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