Social Imagination and Tea Drinking

1)Another way of describing sociological imagination is the understanding that social outcomes are shaped by social context, actors, and social actions. To expand on that definition, it is understanding that some things in society may lead to a certain outcome. The actors mentioned in the definition are things like norms and motives, the social context are like country and time period and the social action is the stuff we do that affects other people. The things we do are shaped by: the situation we are in, the values we have, and the way people around us act. These things are examined to how they all relate to some sort of outcome. Sociological imagination can also be considered as the capacity to see things socially, how they interact, and influence each other. It allows the sociologist to see the relationship between people and society.

Tea Drinking and Sociological Imagination
Virtually any behavior can have sociological imagination applied to it. An example of the application of the sociological imagination is the drinking of tea. The perception of drinking tea can be examined from several different perspectives rather than just the simple act of drinking tea.
For example,
It can be seen as a means of maintaining good health in the way that one might take daily vitamins, because the benefits of tea have been touted by health researchers.
It could be considered a tradition or ritual as many people choose to drink tea ritualistically each day at a certain time.
It could be considered a type of drug because it contains caffeine, and therefore the drinker of the tea may have a type of an addiction.
It can be seen from the perspective of being a social activity such as “meeting for tea,” an activity that actually focuses less on the beverage and more on the actual activity of meeting with another person.

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