How do I define sociology? I like to think of it as things that may not always be like they seem (Vela-McConnell 8/30/16). In sociology we to dig deeper into those things and look what is beneath the surface (Vela-McConnell 8/30/16). It is also up to us in sociology to question what we take for granted and question things we don’t normally question (Vela-McConnell 8/30/16). We looked at a chart in class about divorce rates and it stated that as time went on, divorce rates went up. About 15% who were married in the 2000s had about 8 years of marriage before they divorced. But if we look at marriages who had about 30 plus years of marriage, they were married in the 1960s and 1970s (Vela-McConnell 8/30/16). A sociologist would dig deeper into this issue by asking questions to find out the many causes of divorce. Questions like “Could it be that couples that had arranged marriages last longer?” (Vela-McConnell 8/30/16). …show more content…
One of them is called the Sociological Imagination. C. Wright Mills states that there are two things in the Sociological Imagination and they are Private Troubles and Public Issues (Vela-McConnell 8/30/16). Mills describes private troubles as “a series of traps” (Mills 1959) individual people face in their lives and sometimes they feel as if they can’t overcome these traps (Mills 1959). Let’s say that a student has a quiz due due an hour and they haven’t started it yet. Or if someone is 10 minutes late to a class or work but they are in the middle of something. These are examples of what Mills call private troubles because they affect ordinary people on a daily basis (Mills 1959). In class we described public issues as large scale things that affect all of us (Vela-McConnell 8/30/16). An example of a public issue is something like an earthquake. This is a public issue is because, as how we defined it in class stated, affects all of us (Vela-McConnell