Question

Provide an example of how you would apply the Sociological Imagination to a current social issue within society regarding education funding. What is your perspective on the issue if you use the Sociological Imagination?

Answer 1

Ans) The most common example of the sociological imagination pertains to unemployment. An individual facing unemployment might feel defeated, depleted, and discouraged.

- That person is likely to look in the mirror and say, "You didn't work hard enough.

Perspective on the issue if use of social imagination:

- Seems to stem from overly rigid processes that presume everyone should be, and will be, working in the same pattern.

- I suggest that the only real solution to this has to be people focused.

- Free up staff to use their own common sense, their own local knowledge of work and, crucially, their own judgement in each individual case.

- This country needs temps, and temping can be a fantastic choice – be it a way to get back into work after children, or after a period of unemployment. But, as it stands, we are squandering the talents of part of our workforce because bureaucracy doesn't allow for creativity or flexibility.