TopicThreadsPostsLast Post Sociological Imagination (5%)The following Course Learning Outcomes are assessed in this assignment:CLO1, CLO2Instructions:In this discussion, you will be creating 3 posts. Below are the instructions for each post.Post 1 – Personal Post (5 marks)By applying C. Wright Mill’s (1959) concept of the sociological imagination, individuals can critically analyze their situations and the world around them, recognizing how social structures, cultural norms, and historical processes shape their lives. Choose an example of personal trouble that can be connected to a larger public or societal trouble. Using the sociological imagination, explain how the issue you chose can be viewed as interconnected. (personal/public issue)Post 2 & 3 – Reply to 2 other posts (5 marks)Replies: Reply to two classmates. Provide responses that demonstrate critical thought, and further the discussion. NOT great job, or I agree. These posts must reflect thought and critical thinking that supports or challenges the post you are commenting on as well as provide one citation and reference with each response that strengthens the position or claim you are making.Cite all your sources in APA style. See Owl Purdue for more information on how to cite your sources. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/Submission:Please post your response (min 300 words – reference your work) to this discussion board and respond to 2 other postings with meaningful, supported detailed comments | | | |
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Reference:Chapter 1: Developing Social Imagination, page 6Social imagination. Simplypsychology.org. from htpps://What Is Sociological Imagination: Definition & Examples (simplypsychology.org)
Example of student answers Since I started working for Lambton County, employment advancement has been a problem because I need the education required to advance from permanent part-time receptionist/clerk to permanent full-time Caseworker or Community Support Worker roles. Society has other individuals with similar situations and on a much larger scale in society than just my issues. To use imagination through a societal lens is to look at the bigger picture, with more individuals having shared concerns (as cited in Week 2’s Module-Social Imagination). I had to refrain from thinking employment advancement was just my issue. I expanded my thinking and stepped outside the box to look in. Through my Social Imagination, I found that many individuals have similar employment and education advancement situations. Many individuals in society have different barriers to achieving the education needed. Like myself, we look at the cost of everyday life, including shelter, food, transportation, etc. Inflation has made it very difficult to manage the essentials of life. In this case, individuals will be deterred from pursuing education and go straight to work out of necessity. Social and economic status play a part. Individuals from families with money and connections have all the support and resources to access education without external worries. Our underprivileged populations face one or all barriers to basic survival, including affordable food/shelter, access to transportation, and affordable childcare, if more individuals open their minds to creative thinking and understand that this is not a personal but a societal issue (retrieved from Week 2’s reading content-Social Imagination). If education had a structure towards fair and equal opportunity, we would have more employable individuals with options to advance. To achieve this structure, we must advocate for more resources and support for affordable food/shelter, childcare, transportation, and basic life necessities. C. Wright Mills indicated, “Sociological Imagination provides a way of understanding ourselves on a small scale, as a private individual with individual concerns, and on a large scale, as a public member of social groups with shared concerns.” (Mills, retrieved from Week 2’s reading content-Social Imagination). Society would benefit from using Social Imagination to understand where other individuals are coming from. Understanding different societal groups can help you find opportunities and ways to contribute to a more significant issue than your problem (retrieved from Week 2’s reading content-Social-Imagination)