Sociological Observation Of A Homeless Person

The setting of my experiment happened back in my hometown in different locations. I decided to do different random acts of kindness all day, like giving back to a homeless person, and a few other things. For my first deviant act, I decided to give back to a homeless person I saw near downtown. I had went to McDonalds earlier and bought a burger with a bottled water to give away. I decided to dress up as business attire to see reactions when I approached a homeless stranger. I started to feel nervous because this would have been my time interacting with a random homeless stranger. When I walked up to this woman, I noticed she was sitting down on the sidewalk and looked tired. She had a sign saying she was hungry and didn’t eat in two days. But
Using sociological imagination, helped me looked past the individual person and brought me to focus on the social aspects that may have caused this negative outcome. Did she lose her job because she was uneducated or lazy? The answer to this is no, unemployment has been a problem in our hometown and she did not become lazy all of a sudden. This negative outcome was due to something else outside of her individual self-changed. She thanked me, gave me a hug and said I was the only one in a long time who actually looked at her as a person. I knew sitting down on the sidewalk downtown, eating lunch with a homeless person was considered breaking a social norm. I gave another homeless person who was a man this time $20 and said have a blessed day. His eyes enlarged when he saw the bill and asked me was I sure. I told him I was positive because everyone goes through hard times to where we wish someone would be there for us. He shook my hand and said “Thank you so much, you have no idea how much this means to me.” Homeless is a problem in our society to where it evokes strong reactions from people but we must understand this problem as a social rather than an individualistic