Sociological Analysis Of Unemployment

Mills explains the sociological imagination as “the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society”. To have a sociological imagination, is to have the capability to see conditions socially and how they relate and influence each other. In order to carry out this social analysis people must “think themselves away from the familiar” and the everyday routines of their lives. In order to look at these individual issues with a sociological imagination, a person must be able to remove themselves from the situation and think from a different orientation. This ability is fundamental to one's development of a sociological perspective on the world. Mills says that “neither the life of an individual nor the history of a …show more content…
However, it is important to understand how their unemployment relates to their environment. When the unemployment rate continues to climb among a society, it cannot be seen as the result of a personal flaw or weakness. When problems are shared by so many others in a society we have to reasonably assume that something within the structure of that society is contributing to the problem. When unemployment is climbing it is often related to a public issue of economic deterioration rather than stemming strictly from personal failure.
When people in the society lack accomplishment, I find myself agreeing with this concept since problems like high unemployment cannot be solved by an individual alone, it is important that we use the sociological imagination to identify the roots of the system and call attention to any lack of inefficient political solutions. However, it is important that the idea of the sociological imagination does not free people from personal responsibility, nor does it give an individual license to be lazy or not to try hard to achieve accomplishment and success in