Gender Assignment 2
Nile Turgut
September 29th, 2014
Professor Rosenberg
Soc 246 In 1959, sociologist C. Wright Mills defined sociological imagination as the ability to see the impact of social forces on individuals' private and public lives. Sociological imagination, then, plays a central role in the sociological perspective. It's the process of linking individual experience with social institutions and one's place in history. It involves moving away from thinking in terms of the individual and his/her's problems, focusing rather on the social circumstances that produce social problems. Sociological imagination is the “quality of mind” that enables us to look outside our everyday life and see the entire society as we were an outsider with the benefit of acknowledge of human and social behavior. Every individual problem has a connection to a bigger issue no matter what topic. “No social study that does not come back to the problems of biography, of history and of their intersections within a society has completed its intellectual journey.” The sociological imagination is a fancy term for the ability to connect and individual to their larger social institutions that invisibly influence their behaviors and opportunities. So many of us experience our own personal life story as something we are totally in control of and solely responsible for, but this is not the whole story. Throughout your entire life your individual actions and choices were heavily influenced by the people and institutions around you. It allows us to see how society shapes and influences our life experiences. Seeing the world sociologically also makes us aware of the importance of gender. Every society attaches meanings to gender, giving woman and men different kind of work, responsibilities and dress codes. We tend to think that becoming a man or becoming a woman is a biological destiny. But sociological imagination allows us to see it in a different way. It allows us to view gender
September 29th, 2014
Professor Rosenberg
Soc 246 In 1959, sociologist C. Wright Mills defined sociological imagination as the ability to see the impact of social forces on individuals' private and public lives. Sociological imagination, then, plays a central role in the sociological perspective. It's the process of linking individual experience with social institutions and one's place in history. It involves moving away from thinking in terms of the individual and his/her's problems, focusing rather on the social circumstances that produce social problems. Sociological imagination is the “quality of mind” that enables us to look outside our everyday life and see the entire society as we were an outsider with the benefit of acknowledge of human and social behavior. Every individual problem has a connection to a bigger issue no matter what topic. “No social study that does not come back to the problems of biography, of history and of their intersections within a society has completed its intellectual journey.” The sociological imagination is a fancy term for the ability to connect and individual to their larger social institutions that invisibly influence their behaviors and opportunities. So many of us experience our own personal life story as something we are totally in control of and solely responsible for, but this is not the whole story. Throughout your entire life your individual actions and choices were heavily influenced by the people and institutions around you. It allows us to see how society shapes and influences our life experiences. Seeing the world sociologically also makes us aware of the importance of gender. Every society attaches meanings to gender, giving woman and men different kind of work, responsibilities and dress codes. We tend to think that becoming a man or becoming a woman is a biological destiny. But sociological imagination allows us to see it in a different way. It allows us to view gender