interaction. Its beginning point is the assumption that we are social animals from birth, that is, that we are powerfully influenced by other people's expectations. Sociologists would argue that you can't make sense of your own behaviour, much less the patterns of behaviour in families, corporations, or nations, without developing a quality of mind which sociologist C. Wright Mills termed "the sociological imagination. Sociology’s subject matter is diverse, ranging from crime to religion, from the family…
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