Agenda for 1/27 and 1/28

1. Finish Intro to Sociology Key Note

2. Connecting the Sociological Imagination to your life!

• "This is Water" by David Foster Wallace 
• How do the ideas in this excerpt connect to the concept of the "Sociological Imagination." Think about the iceberg and the waterline of visibility?

HW - Assignment #2 - Due: 1/29

• Answer the two questions below in a paragraph each.
• Submit to eBackpack "Assignment #2 - This is Water"

1. What is the main point of Wallace's "This is Water" speech?

2. What is the connection between his words and the "Sociological Imagination?"

Respond in a paragraph each.

• Below are excerpts from "This is Water" speech by David Foster Wallace.
  

"The only thing that's capital 'T' True is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it. This, I submit, is the freedom of real education, of how to be well-adjusted. You get to decide what has meaning and what doesn't. That is real freedom. That is being educated and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness."
“Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.”