Question

Will you continue to use your sociological imagination after this course (sociology) and how?

Answer 1

Developing the ability to use the scientific method to do research, analyze and write about some event gives us the power of context and a wide perspective that helps us to better understand what is going on. Thinking critically about society gives us insight into why people do what they do. We don’t take conclusions at face value and we search for clearer and better data or information about the topics that interest us.The sociological imagination is the ability to look beyond one’s own everyday life as a cause for daily successes and failures and see the entire society in which one lives as potential cause for these things. Having sociological imagination is critical for individual people and societies at large to understand. It is important that people are able to relate the situations in which they live their daily lives to the local, national, and global societal issues that affect them. Without the ability to make these relations, people are unable to see societal issues that affect them and are unable to determine if these issues require change to better their everyday lives. Using sociological imagination helps sociologists in their research by giving them the ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society. The difference between the two is: Sociological Imagination- provides us with the ability to see the relationship between the individual experience and the larger society. Sociological Perspective- allows us find out why people do the things they do.