Sociological Imagination By C. Wright Mills

After reading chapter one in our textbook, it was evident that sociological imagination is a huge factor in the society that we live in and is a very important concept involved with sociology in a whole. Sociological imagination effects an enormous variety of people throughout the world no matter the person’s age, gender, race or even religion, everybody can be affected by it. C. Wright Mills was the first to bring this idea of to fruition by writing the book ,”Sociological Imagination” in the year 1959. After doing research, watching the Youtube and reading chapter one, I would describe the idea of sociological imagination as someone basically putting themselves in a box or even isolating themselves from the rest of the world resulting from
I personally believe that unemployment across our country and the entire world is one, if not the biggest factors of sociological imagination and how it effects a person personally as well as the public as a whole. Currently in Pennsylvania our unemployment rate is around 4.7%, which is actually .6% higher than the countries average. This stat means that there are roughly 300,000 unemployed people in our state alone, many of which have families to support and bills to pay. The reason this ties into social imagination is because there are many people out there that become very discouraged they can’t find a job. They may also feel a sense of shame and embarrassment on a personal level to the point where they begin to actually look down on and even blame their situation on themselves. This can lead to a very unhealthy lifestyle where people may begin to just give up and shut themselves down from the rest of the world without ever stopping the think that there are many other people out there going through the same problems that they are and maybe it really is not their fault like they think and that they can still get through and live a successful normal
The first public issue when it comes unemployment that I thought of was how it actually effects those who are employed in a negative manner, along with their businesses or companies. For example, the more the unemployment rate rises, the money in the economy decreases. When people do not have a lot of money to spend, that means the demand for certain products are going to also decrease resulting in companies not nearly making enough money that they would if everybody has a job. This can even affect people with jobs in a company because if a company is not accumulating much money, they may be forced to lay off their workers which then results in unemployment rising even more, almost like a snowball effect. Unemployment can also damage a community. If people are unable to pay their bills or even their mortgages they may be forced to sell the house or even decide to foreclose the house, and it does not matter if you pay your bills or not, if people around you are getting foreclosed, the value of your property is guaranteed to go down as