Sociological Imagination Is A Social Issue

Today I am writing to address your obesity problem you claim to have, but is it really your personal trouble? Or is it a social issue? Being plus size is not just your individual problem but a societal issue. I will explain how the sociological imagination works from my perspective. What is sociology? What is sociological imagination? You may ask. Well my dear friend, to know what sociology is we must understand that “We are always participating in something larger than ourselves and if we want to understand social life and what happens to people in it, we have to understand what it is that we’re participating in and how we participate in it.” (p.39). On September 6th, 2017, we discussed the term sociological imagination in my sociology class. The term sociological imaginary was presented by the American sociologist C. Wright Mills in 1959 to describe the type of insight offered by the discipline of sociology. “Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.” (Mills 1959).

If you look at your problem from a sociological perspective you will see that you are not the only one in this situation and it is a social issue that is triggered by different factors. There is not just one factor to blame for obesity, but instead several intertwined elements from the micro individual self all the way up to the macro level nationwide