Criteria:
?What is the personal issue, problem, or everyday, basic incident happening in your life?
?How is it related, or connected, to what is going on in the society /world around you (your local community, city, country, etc.) at this particular point in history?
?How can you connect the personal issue with social forces outside of your personal control? What social institution(s) or factors have had an influence on your personal issue - family, government, economy, religion, education, Media, socio-economic status, national origin, race/ethnicity, educational background, etc.?
My example:
The personal issue in my life is abstinence, I don’t believe in sex before marriage. In society today, teenage pregnancy is on a rise along with STD’s. If people would practice abstinence, there would not be as much unwanted pregnancies and the spread of STD’s would decrease in society. The social institutions and factors which have an influence on my personal issue are family, religion and educational background.
Does the information in the example meet the requirements in the criteria?
And is that a good example of sociological imagination?
?What is the personal issue, problem, or everyday, basic incident happening in your life?
?How is it related, or connected, to what is going on in the society /world around you (your local community, city, country, etc.) at this particular point in history?
?How can you connect the personal issue with social forces outside of your personal control? What social institution(s) or factors have had an influence on your personal issue - family, government, economy, religion, education, Media, socio-economic status, national origin, race/ethnicity, educational background, etc.?
My example:
The personal issue in my life is abstinence, I don’t believe in sex before marriage. In society today, teenage pregnancy is on a rise along with STD’s. If people would practice abstinence, there would not be as much unwanted pregnancies and the spread of STD’s would decrease in society. The social institutions and factors which have an influence on my personal issue are family, religion and educational background.
Does the information in the example meet the requirements in the criteria?
And is that a good example of sociological imagination?