The Role Of Sociological Imagination In My Life

Every aspect of my life has been a result of the horrifying past of Northern Ireland. I was born on August 16th 1997 to my incredible parents Sean (John) Haughey and Angela Dempsey in Belfast, Northern Ireland. My parents, although faced with every obstacle imaginable, sought out the best life possible for myself, and my two siblings. War strays from all sorts of different reasons, from religion to land or anything in between. Regardless of the situation, we all have some sort of relevance to war, somewhere along the line, our lives relate back to war. Social order is necessary for any society to thrive, there are rules for everyone to follow, both spoken and unspoken. According to C.W. Mills we must have sociological imagination for a society to thrive. Our quality of mind is how willing we are to accept and build upon others cultural values. The sociological imagination is simply a "quality of mind" that allows one to grasp "history and biography and the relations between the two within society.” (C.W. Mills
But the effects of the troubles still have a deep impact on my entire family to this day. The easiest way to describe the troubles is the constant fight for freedom, to go against British rule and to be a free country. Although the vicious attempts by the IRA were ultimately unsuccessful because the divide is still in place even to this day. My brother and father both have the Irish flag tattooed on their forearms and whenever we go back to Ireland they must remain covered up in certain parts of the city. There are certain neighbourhoods based as “protestant” or “catholic”, and if either of them were caught with these tattoos they could have been brutally beaten or even killed. Although the troubles technically ended in 1998, the reminisce still effect the entire city and its