Sociological Imagination has been defined by C. Wright Mills as the “vivid awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society,” this refers to the human ability to discover how the things that are going on in their own lives (and in their experiences in the past) are affected by the society they exist in. To be able to accomplish such understanding one has to consider things such as social class, gender, religion, location (where you were born and currently live), even the generation you were born in and sexuality. To give an example I can apply this belief to my own life. I was born in 1989 in Miami, Florida to a white mother and a Jamaican father of the lower middle class. I don’t remember much about that with
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Being a child of mixed race wasn’t exactly easy in communities that were predominately white, and I would hear a very disappointing amount of racial slurs before I reached the age of 7, when we moved to Ashland, Kentucky. Even though the town we moved to had a higher minority population I didn’t exactly fit in with them either since I was mixed, which welcomed further teasing and bullying from both Caucasian and African American classmates. Racial slurs became a normality to me from as early as Elementary School and continued until a small group of people befriended me in high school. Afterward, I decided to participate in any activities that particular group did which caused me to often find myself in the principal’s office, and unrelatedly, on the radar of truancy after consistently having to stay home to care for my aunt who had a history of falling ill. I eventually ended up in foster care because of this, and remained there until a series of bad choices landed me in a juvenile detention …show more content…
I am working on relocating my family to a better community that offers more chances to those children of our mixed ethnicity, yet still focusing on establishing enough assets to put ourselves in a high social status while guiding them to make choices for themselves instead of relying on what makes them gain popularity. Education of sociological impact can make a world of difference, and (partially thanks to this Sociology course) I am much more aware of that
Being a child of mixed race wasn’t exactly easy in communities that were predominately white, and I would hear a very disappointing amount of racial slurs before I reached the age of 7, when we moved to Ashland, Kentucky. Even though the town we moved to had a higher minority population I didn’t exactly fit in with them either since I was mixed, which welcomed further teasing and bullying from both Caucasian and African American classmates. Racial slurs became a normality to me from as early as Elementary School and continued until a small group of people befriended me in high school. Afterward, I decided to participate in any activities that particular group did which caused me to often find myself in the principal’s office, and unrelatedly, on the radar of truancy after consistently having to stay home to care for my aunt who had a history of falling ill. I eventually ended up in foster care because of this, and remained there until a series of bad choices landed me in a juvenile detention …show more content…
I am working on relocating my family to a better community that offers more chances to those children of our mixed ethnicity, yet still focusing on establishing enough assets to put ourselves in a high social status while guiding them to make choices for themselves instead of relying on what makes them gain popularity. Education of sociological impact can make a world of difference, and (partially thanks to this Sociology course) I am much more aware of that