Sociological Imagination - Individual Experiences and Social Impact
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According to Sociologist, C. Wright Mills, people often believe that their private lives can only be explained in terms for 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. Use your Sociological Imagination to discuss the unbreakable connection between individual experiences and the social impact of one of the following issues:
1. Being unemployed and the impact of unemployment as a broad issue.
2. Living in poverty and the broader issue of poverty in society.
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Referring to the concept of "Sociological Imagination," this solution discusses the unbreakable connection between individual experiences and the social impact of issues, such as: being unemployed and the impact of unemployment as a broad issue; and living in poverty and the broader issue of poverty in society.
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This question is asking you to discuss the connection between individual experiences and social impact of, for example, living in poverty and the boarder issue of poverty in society. In fact, C. Wright Mills would argue that the individual living in poverty would not make the connection with their own poverty and that of poverty in the broader society.
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In terms of gender, for example, poverty strikes women at a higher rate than it does men. Research suggests that the link between individual poverty levels and society are factors such as age, education level, health status, marital status, employment status, industrial distribution (i.e., more women work in low paying jobs) labor market participation, etc. For example, for women in Pakistan, a changing gender composition of population, with a low rate of female labour market participation raises the burden on the working population. This rise in dependency with a rise in poverty affects the welfare of the population. Since the females are facing discrimination at home, in terms of access to education and others like ...
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