Sociological imagination helps us understand how personal problems are related to the large social forces. For example‚ suicide used to be a personal trouble‚ but as more and more people committing suicide‚ it has been considered as a public issue that shaped by large society. If a person commit suicide‚ people first may think that the person is vulnerable. Perhaps‚ this individual is not able to overcome some obstacles in his/her life. From a personal view‚ there are many reasons for an individual
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Everyone has an imagination. It enables individuals to articulate new ideas and envision life through a different perspective. However‚ without thinking away from one’s familiar routine‚ it can be difficult to view life from an altered standpoint. Mills (1959/2016) supports this claim through a term he called the sociological imagination (p.2). This entails an individual being able to think away from their current lives and reflect using another viewpoint. For instance‚ when problems arise in an
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In the article The promise of the Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills‚ Mills explains the purpose of sociology to be how an individual understands and fits into their society. It’s our views on the world and how we learn to adapt to it depending on things that are occurring in society‚ and our perspective towards it. As far as the purpose of sociological method goes it’s a way sociologist can uncover the truths in order to explain why certain things occur in the society that we live in
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The sociological imagination (SI) is described as‚ “the ability to see the connections between our personal experience and the larger force of history” (Conley‚ pg.4). An example of the application of the sociological imagination is the baking cookies. The perception of baking cookies can be examined from several different perspectives rather than just the simple act of baking cookies. Virtually any behavior can have sociological imagination applied to it. For example‚ 1. It can be seen as a means
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1. The need for food is biological‚ not social‚ but society still shapes the way we eat and the meaning we give to food. Using your sociological imagination‚ pick out a particular food that you enjoy‚ and analyze it in terms of its social meaning. How are the ingredients and the preparation style connected to larger social ;structures? The meaning we give to food is like‚ it is praised by people. Also‚ it has more praise depending on what it is. For example‚ if I say‚ “Pizza” some people and certain
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Is Gay Marriage Ruining the "Sanctity" of the Institution? Marriage is traditionally viewed as the legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife. However‚ what happens when those two people are two men or two women? This topic of gay marriage has been a major issue in the United States over the past few years. It has raised several political debates as well as other minor arguments throughout the United States and around the world. Until recently‚ homosexual couples in the United States
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Question 2 | | 1 / 1 point | Paradoxically‚ using our sociological imagination helps us _____. | | create an image of how people in other societies live | | | develop hypotheses that we can test with statistical data | | | make the familiar strange | | | understand the theories developed by Marx‚ Weber‚ and Durkheim | Question 3 | | 0 / 1 point | Which of the following is an example of using one’s sociological imagination? | | being in
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Sociological imagination is that idea that you can relate personal troubles to public issues in society. The video provides obesity as an example of a personal issue that can also be viewed as a vast societal problem as well. Like obesity‚ eating disorders like anorexia can be an example of sociological imagination too. Anorexia is a disease that can be analyzed on the personal level while it is under an individual’s control whether or not to eating food. However‚ it can also be examined on a public
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Mills describes “sociological imagination” as the ability to see the extent to which larger social and historical forces can or has shaped one’s life (Roberts pg. 3) In other words‚ having the ability to notice that one’s “personal” problems are sometimes not actually one’s fault but the fault of a public issue. An example of how personal troubles represent public issues can be unemployment. This can lead to having signs of depression or frustration for not being able to find a job. Many people
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s the TV‚ as we know it‚ dead? The last few years has seen more people ditching their televisions in favour of a bigger monitor than ever before. With movie and TV downloads (legal or otherwise)‚ streamed video content from a host of online players and a raft of catch-up services‚ some have speculated that it’s the thin end of the wedge for the goggle box. At the same time‚ we’ve since seen the Internet come to our TVs‚ widgets on our big screens and the arrival of 3D from the cinema as well‚
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