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?
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.
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