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Discuss the sociological perspective and the relationship between social forces and personal social identity,and give a modern example.
On May 21, 2024
C.W.Mills suggested that people who do not,or cannot,recognize the social origins and character of their problems may be unable to respond to these problems effectively.In effect,failing to appreciate how individual challenges are influenced by larger social forces diminishes a person's ability to understand and resolve them.For Mills,the individual and the social are inextricably linked,and we cannot fully understand one without the other.As such,many personal troubles never become social issues because people rarely equate what is happening to them with the larger social worlds in which they exist.
Mills argued that sociologists need to expose individuals to what he called the sociological imagination,which is the ability to understand the dynamic relationship between individual lives and the larger society.It involves stepping outside of your own condition and looking at yourself from a new perspective-seeing yourself as the product of your family,income level,race,and gender.
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