Instruction
According to C. Wright Mills, the sociological imagination involves the ability to recognize that private troubles are rooted in public issues and structural problems
- Select an example of a private trouble
- What factors/evidence would you use to explain how and why it may reflect a structural problem in society?
- What are some potential solutions to this problem, both for the individual and the group
- which one of the three sociological theoretical perspectives sounds most appealing to you? and you would apply to solve this issue: functionalism, conflict theory, or symbolic interactionism? Why?
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