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Question: Let's make sociology come to life! Real-world activities are designed to help students connect the concepts to the real world. Using this week's assigned chapters, you'll select a concept to highlight.

There is a sample you can refer to below. This displays the required sections: concept, image, image citation, article citation, textbook definition, and "in my own words."

This week you will locate a one-course concept from our weekly readings in chapters 1 and 2 and research one appropriate image on how it connects to the concept. (Images should be respectful, appropriate, and non-offensive to an academic setting.) Image Citation: "Stock Images, Photos, Vectors, Video, and Music." Shutterstock, 10 Aug. 2020.

Additional Resource Citation: (This is optional if you use an additional reference.)

Textbook Citation: OpenStax. (2017). Introduction to Sociology.

Textbook Definition: The sociological imagination was described by C. Wright Mills as, "an awareness of the relationship between a person's behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped the person's choices and perceptions" (OpenStax, 2017, sect 1.1).

In my own words: This is an image of an individual who lost her job, as indicated on the sign. On one hand, I can look at this person and think that she lost her job because she is not a "good employee" or does not have the "right skills" but when I use my sociological imagination, I look at the larger picture of our culture. Perhaps she lost a job or there is a high unemployment rate or there is a hiring freeze in her field all due to the pandemic. Using my sociological imagination helps me understand more about the "loss of the job" because it helps me understand that this individual's issue is "bigger" than the image perceives.