Sociological Imagination: Consider a social problem have you…
Sociological Imagination: Consider a social problem have you learned more about this semester. You may use one of the following examples, or choose a different social topic: poverty, access to education, substance use disorder, aging and isolation, access to health care, mental health issues, physical health issues, street crime, white collar crime. Consider your chosen topic from Mill’s Sociological Imagination (personal troubles vs public issues), and answer the following questions to the best of your ability. How might it be viewed as a personal trouble (blaming the person)? Why? How might we see it as a social issue (recognizing the structural/systemic issues responsible)? What do you think might be done to address this as a social issue? How does our social location make it challenging to see individual troubles as public issues?
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