3.  Does absence make the heart grow fonder?

4.  Out of Sight; out of mind?

5.  Birds of a feather flock together?

6.  Opposites attract?

7.  “What ordinary men 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 milieu, they move vicariously and remain spectators.” C. Wright Mills The Sociological Imagination

8.  Allows us to see the relationship between the individual and society  Ability to stretch your imagination to things you may have not directly experienced or to more abstract concepts  “Verstehen”

9.  Helps overcome short-sightedness  Leads to “de-bunking” of faulty information  Allows us to see opportunities and constraints in our lives  Allows us to be active participants in our world  Allows us to live in a diverse in changing world

10.  Suicide  Emile Durkheim ▪ Egoistic ▪ Altruistic ▪ Anomic ▪ Fatalistic

11.  Social Facts  External to the individual  Have coercive power of the individual  Transcend time