Method for understanding social orders people use to make sense of the world through analyzing their accounts and descriptions of their day-to-day experiences
Term coined by Mills to describe a means of knowledge that expresses both an understanding that personal troubles can and often do reflect broader social issues and problems and also faith in the capacity of human beings to alter the course of human history; expresses the humanistic aspect of the sociological perspective
When a person occupies multiple statuses that contradict one another
A union that is sanctioned by the state and often by a religious institution such as a church