This assignment provides you an opportunity to apply the sociological imagination to a real life social issue and evaluate the importance of the sociological imagination as a concept that sociologists use to analyze social issues and problems.

View the three short videos.

Making the Familiar Strange
This short video will explain to you how sociologists view issues in society.
C. Wright Mills
This video gives you a brief biography of C. Wright Mills and his contributions to sociology including the sociological imagination.
The Sociological Imagination
This video clip will explain what the sociological imagination is and how it is used by sociologists.

After viewing the three short videos on C. Wright Mills, Sociological Imagination, and seeing the general in the particular, you are ready to write your first journal entry. Reflect on what you learned about the sociological imagination. In your journal entry discuss the following:

1. In your own words, explain the sociological imagination as if you were a teacher explaining it to students (provide your own example).
2. Discuss at least two concepts that C. Wright Mills wrote about.
3. Create an example of how you have seen or could see the general in the particular. This can be an example from your own life or larger society.