What is Sociological Imagination?

Sociological Imagination is the set of mind that allows individuals to see the relationship between events in their personal lives and events in their society. Is also the study of humans relationship and the interaction of the world. The connection between one person and the socuiety.

How are the activities we have done in class related to sociological imagination?

The activities we have done in class are related to sociological imagination, because they all have to interact with the world and the relationship between people and the things that sorround us. they also have the capacity to discern the relationship between large-scale social forces and the actions of individuals.

1.      What do you see in this photograph?

This picture shows a woman with two little kids by her size and a new born on her arms. The look kind of sad, because they are not showing their faces and it looks like if they are rubbing their faces with their little hands and covering it, they look really tired. The mom looks sad and like if she is thinking for a better place that her children’s could be.

2.      What thoughts and feelings come to your mind when looking at this photograph?

When looking at this photograph the thoughts and feelings that come to my mind are about sadness and sorrow because the child’s and the mom look really humble and it looks like if they are living on the streets.

3.  Who are the people in the photograph? What can you say about them? What are your clues?

She is a thirty two years old women and the mother of seven children. She has three of her child with her I don’t know where are the rest of them. My clues are the title of the pictures and the picture too because it shows lots of things I did not know.

4.  Imagine yourself as a person inside the scene depicted in the photograph. What would you do if you were in it? How do you think that you would feel? What mood does the picture seem to have?

If I were in the scene of the photograph I think I would be in the same situation as the people in the picture, because I don’t really know what is going on in their lives, but can still see some sadness on her face.  I think I always try to do something that changes the lives of me and the people around me.

5.  What clues do you see in the photograph about time?

I think this picture was taken during the Great Depression.

6. What clues do have about the place?

My clues are the way the picture looks I have seen many pictures like this one and the look alike.

7. What are some other clues/ evidence of social status that you see such as culture, race, ECT?

I think they are Jewish people. My clues are then way they dress and the way they look.

8.  Is the story telling you a story? What kind? Can you make up a short story based upon the photo?

Yes, the photograph is telling me story, about sadness and poor times because it shows the live of a single mother who lives with her children and they seen  really sad and I think they had been passing though a really hard time in life.

1.       Choose 1 headline or article and connect it to your own life. How might the event or issue have affected your life?

Arts Figures Fear For the Endowment after Frohnmayer:

This article is connected to my life and it affected my life in a positive way, because it happened on the day I was born and I’ve always have talents and especially with the arts I love to dance act sing and at and even model. As you can see this article can show and express who I am and what I like to do as hobbies and arts is my passion.

2.      Think of another event in history, especially one from your native country. How did this event affect YOUR life?

For Immigrants, English Helps Them Feel at Home:

This event affects my life and lots of others people too, because it’s a difficult process when you come to the U.S and you have to learn the new language and adapt to the new life. This event affect our life in a negative way, because we al have to pass by the same process in order to survive in the new country. But it’s also a good thing because the new country is your new home and some people make feel like your at home.

3.      How is this project related to sociological imagination? In order to answer this question, you must say in your own words what sociological imagination is, and then say how this project is an example of that.

Sociological imagination is the capacity to shift from one perspective to another. This project is an example of sociological imagination in which I look for how the events from history have shaped my life. Sociological Imagination is the connection between an individual and the wider society. In this project I demonstrate how history influenced my life even automatically. I am sure that this happens to every person because society shapes people’s life

1.       Choose 1 headline or article and connect it to your own life. How might the event or issue have affected your life?

Arts Figures Fear For the Endowment after Frohnmayer:

This article is connected to my life and it affected my life in a positive way, because it happened on the day I was born and I’ve always have talents and especially with the arts I love to dance act sing and at and even model. As you can see this article can show and express who I am and what I like to do as hobbies and arts is my passion.

2.      Think of another event in history, especially one from your native country. How did this event affect YOUR life?

For Immigrants, English Helps Them Feel at Home:

This event affects my life and lots of others people too, because it’s a difficult process when you come to the U.S and you have to learn the new language and adapt to the new life. This event affect our life in a negative way, because we al have to pass by the same process in order to survive in the new country. But it’s also a good thing because the new country is your new home and some people make feel like your at home.

3.      How is this project related to sociological imagination? In order to answer this question, you must say in your own words what sociological imagination is, and then say how this project is an example of that.

Sociological imagination is the capacity to shift from one perspective to another. This project is an example of sociological imagination in which I look for how the events from history have shaped my life. Sociological Imagination is the connection between an individual and the wider society. In this project I demonstrate how history influenced my life even automatically. I am sure that this happens to every person because society shapes people’s life

5 world headlines:

1.      Arts Figures Fear For the Endowment After Frohnmayer

By WILLIAM H. HONAN

February 24, 1992 - By WILLIAM H. HONAN - Arts - 1261 words

2.      Arms Factory Can Make Bricks, But, Russia Asks, Is That Smart?

By CELESTINE BOHLEN,

February 24, 1992 - By CELESTINE BOHLEN, (NYT) - World - News - 1752 words

3.        Prague Turns on Those Who Brought the ‘Spring’

By JOHN TAGLIABUE,

February 24, 1992 - By JOHN TAGLIABUE, (NYT) - World - News - 1020 words 

4.        Israel Says, ‘Wait Here’; Gaza Calls It Oppression

By JOEL GREENBERG,

February 24, 1992 - By JOEL GREENBERG, (NYT) - World - News - 943 words

5.      Can a New Ethiopia One Day Feed Itself?

By JANE PERLEZ,

February 24, 1992 - By JANE PERLEZ, (NYT) - World - News - 894 words

5       US headlines:

·         THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: South; Support for Clinton Appears Firm in Home Base By PETER APPLEBOME,February 24, 1992 - By PETER APPLEBOME, (NYT) - U.S. - News - 1368 words

·         C.I.A. Seeks West Virginia Move Because That’s Where Money Is By ERIC SCHMITT, February 24, 1992 - By ERIC SCHMITT, (NYT) - U.S. - News - 473 words

·         THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: South Dakota; Democrats, in Midwestern Debate, Aggressively Court the Farm Vote By RICHARD L. BERKE, February 24, 1992 - By RICHARD L. BERKE, (NYT) - U.S. - News - 981 words

·         Jamie Buckingham, 59, Preacher Who Criticized TV Evangelists By BRUCE LAMBERT February 24, 1992 - By BRUCE LAMBERT (NYT) - U.S. - Biography - 338 words

·         THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: South; Clinton in the South: Still a Favorite Son Bill Clinton is counting on a strong showing in the series of Southern primaries that culminate on March 10, and many analysts have been asking whether the widely publicized accusations of draft evasion and marital infidelity will hurt his campaign there…. February 24, 1992 - (NYT) - Front Page - Summary - 79 words

2: article summary summaries

1.      Arts Figures Fear For the Endowment after Frohnmayer:

Artists, arts administrators and Government cultural officials were dividedin their reactions to President Bush’s dismissal of John E. Frohnmayer, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. But they were united in one thought: that the endowment is once again in serious jeopardy. Over the weekend there was intense speculation about how President Bush might seek to restore a more moderate, if not vigorously conservative, tone to the agency.

2.      THE MEDIA BUSINESS; European Channel Takes a Stab at CNN:

European television stations have decided to create an all-news satellite channel that should begin broadcasting in five languages early next year. Euronews, as it is to be called, has been under discussion for more than a year, but the final approval came last week when its Geneva-based directors chose Lyons, France, as the station’s headquarters.

2 headlines related to your native country

For Immigrants, English Helps Them Feel at Home

By SARA RIMER
Published: November 28, 1991

The subject was Thanksgiving. In the classroom in Brooklyn where they are learning English together, the 21 students from Guinea, Haiti, Czechoslovakia, the Dominican Republic and 10 other countries were groping for its meaning. They got the part about eating a lot (their multi-ethnic feast started at 10:30 yesterday morning). But they were bewildered by a holiday that celebrates Pilgrims, turkey, pumpkin pie, football and Macy’s all in one day.

Dominican Journal; Filthy Rich with a New York Cocaine Connection

By HOWARD W. FRENCH
Published: August 06, 1991

“San Francisco is the richest place in the republic, not just now, but always,” the officer said. “We produce the most rice, the most coffee and the most cocoa. Just ask anyone here and they’ll boast about how often they travel to New York — not to stay there, but just to visit.”

Sociology, the scientific study of human social behavior. As the study of humans in their collective aspect, sociology is concerned with all group activities: economic, social, political, and religious. Sociologists study such areas as bureaucracy, community, deviant behavior, family, public opinion, social change, social mobility, social stratification, and such specific problems as crime, divorce, child abuse, and substance addiction. Sociology tries to determine the laws governing human behavior in social contexts.

Sociology is a social science which examines human relationships and focus on social world. Sociology vary as of the rest of the social sciences because it call attention on social classes and evaluates education based topics such as delinquency.Sociologist creates background that influence people lives. They are concerned with what happens to the goods and services of a society, but they also focus on the social consequences of inequality.  

The difference between sociology and other social sciences is that sociology is the study of human society and social interaction as a whole. It takes the broad approach to helping us understand the different societies in which we live. Other social sciences dig deeper into specific areas of our social surroundings. Sociology is also divided into two different sciences, Natural Science and Social Science. Natural science is the focus on explaining and understanding what’s happening in our natural environment. Natural science also study (Biology which is base on botany and zoology also geology which is base on mineralogy and geomorphology), (#1). Social science is the science that examines the relationship between human. It‘s basically the human life and how we all related to each other. Social science also studies something different like (Anthropology which is focus on cultural and physical, and also economies which is focus on macro and micro) (#1). Natural science also study things like zebra, lion (zoology), and rocks, mountains (geology), (# 2). In the other hand social science also study religion, ancestors (cultural) and iphone, economy systems (economies), (#2). Natural science is really different from the social science and the different between them is that the natural science explains and understands our natural environment while the social science examines our relationship.

Sociology different from other social science like History, political science, psychology anthropology etc… Sociology focus on society or social groups(what happen to goods and services, belief system etc..),( # 3) while each one of the social sciences study different things like for example, history focus on past events( they attempt to establish the important people idea, social institution), ( #3). Political science which is kind of similar to socialogy, focus on politics or government (the way people govern them selves), (#3). Anthropology which is focusing on understanding culture, a people way of life (culture including, a group’s artifacts, tools, and weapons). All of these other social sciences help us understand what sociology is and the different between them (other social sciences) and sociology, but as an overall we can say these social sciences are all parts of sociology.

Sociology is a very precise and exact social science that varies from the others because it focuses on social relations. It includes the evaluation of social classes and of the system that people in a society tag along. If there was no sociology in the would people would not understand each other and there would not be any relationships between each other.

1.      Do you know whether this object exists in other countries? If so, in what form? How is it used?

Yes this object exists in many other countries and one way this object may exist in other countries is because people who lives in the U.S send this object to there families in there native countries. I believe it for does not changes it states the same, because this object are made in companies and I think there is no way for people to change this object. this object is used for many things in general life: its use for make phone calls, listen to music, send massages, upload pictures to the internet, chat its lost of things that people do with this object.

2.    How do you think the object would be used differently in other countries than in the United States?

I think this object would be used differently in other countries than in the United States, because there are different languages that people speak all over the world so that something that might be different. Also this item might cost are in other counties that than U.S.

3.      Can you give an example? Why do you think that would be the case?

An example for this been the case is that if you go to the Dominican Republic to buy this item you are going to spend a lot ore money than in the U.S. also in i do not think that people in the D.R are going to use this item in English, because not everyone speaks English in D.R

4.    Is it altered in any way when used elsewhere?

I do not think it is change elsewhere because this item is already made and there is no way to make any other change on it.

5.      Does it affect life on the planet in any way?

Yes I think this object affect life on the planet, because people spend too much time on this items and they don’t even spend tie with there families just because they are chatting the object and they don’t pay attention to the things that are really important for than.

6.      Where and how is it made?

This object are made in China I think there are certain factories for which people work to make this objects and that they are transported to another countries and been sale and that companies start to get a profit out of this objects.

Moral dilemma: Is when you have a situation where you have to choose between two things but both of these things are not worth. 

Examples:

1. When the lider of the gang says” Chavala always have to be Chaval”.

2. When Sayra wanted to go to America to have a better life but in order to do that she had to go through the borders of Mexico where she might get arrested or killed.

3. When Casper says that the girl was not his girl.

4. Casper is going to take Sayra to the borders with her family while members of the gang are looking for him to kill him. If he takes her with her family he’d get killed

5. When Smiley has to kill a member from another gang i order to join the Mara.

Altruism: It’s when people  sacrifices themselves in order to help others.

Exaples: 

1. Smailith did not say the truth about Gasper

2. Gasper kill hiss boss in order to save the girl in the train

3. Casper takes Sayra to the border even though he knows it would cost his own life.

4. Casper got off the train and abandons his dream of going to U.S. to protect Sayra’s life.

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