1. Key Concept: Innumeracy Sociological Imagination Biography History Our First Question: Why Go to College?

2. Numeracy in the news Athletics at UW How visible How big is the budget?

3. Numeracy in the news

4. Magnitude of Budgets at UW

5. Email your SocLexicon entries to your TA Put SOCLEXICON in the Subject line!!

6. Sociology A discipline that studies the interplay between the individual and the social context It focuses on regularity in patterns of relations And the impact of groups and group membership on our own sense of who we are, who we can be, and how we can shape history. Sociology is:

7. Sociological imagination: From C.Wright Mills: Understand the relationship between our own experiences and the structure of the world around us Biography (troubles) and History (issues)

9. How we’ll proceed: By Considering Some Interesting Questions Identify and discuss our initial thoughts Consider some relevant sociological theories Evaluate some empirical information Develop revised answers

10. First Question: Why go to college? Why are you here at the UW? How did you get to college? What is your personal biography?

11. Next: Why do some people go to college and some people not?