Summary Of Biography And History: My Intellectual Journey By Mary Romero

Mary Romero's essay "Intersection of Biography and History: My Intellectual Journey" illustrates C. Wright Mill's concept of the Sociological Imagination in three aspects. First Romero is observing the girl in a detached fashion not letting the personal aspects cloud the Sociological Imagination. Then Romero connects personal problems to societal forces because Juanita problem was not she was not being treated fairly as the other kids in the household. She was the only one working with all the household chores while other kids where enjoying their life and giving her orders instead. One day Romero observed that the employer's younger son was giving order to Juanita and Juanita just stood there shocked and humiliated. Since she was a servant

In 2014, I was working for Vonage, a telecommunication company as a sales representative. When someone works as a sales representative, people assume that the job of a sales representative is primarily communication, but in my case, it was the opposite. I felt like I was "invisible" and there was very little communication. On the first day of my job, my general manager told me to put in a random Alaskan address as Alaska had cheaper taxes compared to Illinois. I was concerned, so I asked the other eight sales representatives if it was ok to do so. They said, "Saira, we have been doing this for quite a long time, so you can do it too." I wanted to tell them how wrong they were following this fraud procedure, but no one was ready to listen to me. Everyone was like, "we are working since years, you do not have to teach us. We know better than you and if you want to keep your job, then you do the same." I felt as if I was invisible. I had no right to say what I thought was morally right or wrong and no one cared about my feelings. I had to follow what the seniors at my workplace were telling me to do. In order to keep my colleagues and general manager happy, I also started putting in a random Alaskan address while signing in customers for Vonage. About a month after I started working for Vonage reality hit me hard, when I got an email from my regional manager which read that I was fired because the company found out about the Alaskan address fraud. I was devastated. It was my first job and I was fired. What would be worse than this? I went up to my general manager and confronted him and asked him why he had advised me wrong. He said that although he had told me to put in a random Alaskan address, doing so was completely my choice. I was shocked to hear this coming from him. That day I realized that one should not let peer pressure get in the way and should always do what one think is right regardless of what people tell