Doing sociological imagination
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According to sociologist, C. Wright Mills, people often believe that their private lives can only be explained in terms of their personal successes and failures. They fail to see the links between their own individual lives and the society around them. The process of interpreting your individual life in the context of your community or the society in which you live is called sociological imagination.
Choose ONE of the following issues:
Being unemployed and the impact of unemployment as a broad issue
Being an unmarried pregnant teenager and the impact that unmarried teen pregnancy has on society
Being an alcoholic or drug addict and the broader impact of alcoholism/drug addiction on society
Use your sociological imagination to discuss the connection between individual experiences and the social impact of the issue you chose.
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The assignment asks you to use sociological imagination to discuss "being unemployed and the impact of unemployment as a broad issue". I did a search in my university's library for "sociological imagination" and found a few articles that might help you with your approach to this paper. I will attach them, but here is what I suggest after reading quite a bit from the journal, Teaching Sociology.
First, you need to look at the issue of unemployment by imagining yourself into that circumstance and evaluating several different aspects of your own experience relative to employment. Look in the attachments for the article I saved as "Sociologic Autobiography." In it, the author describes an assignment he gave to his college students in which they had to write a sociologic autobiography with a set of sociological assumptions. Here's a quote from the article: "That is, they step in and step out of themselves in order to see themselves in a social and historical context. By objectifying themselves and by consciously making use of both social and historical data along with sociological concepts and principles, sociological ...
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