Sociological Imagination
Social Imagination and My Life
The sociological imagination is the notion that allows a person to understand the greater picture of oneself and one’s role in society. In this assignment I will examine my own life from a sociologist perspective. I will look at my position as an individual in society and explain how sociological imagination has shaped made me into the person that I have become today. In order to effectively due this, I must provide you with my background. At the age of eight years old my parents divorced, my father was awarded custody. Soon after this he was injured in an accident and was not able to care of me so I was sent to live with my grandparents. The reason I had to live with grandparents was that after their divorce …show more content…
I believe this as a result of the fact that in my life both my parents have never been there for me. I have always had to rely on myself thus making it hard to let anyone get close to me. Today I have a wonderful wife and two great boys, yet it took a long time for me to trust and let my wife in, and still sometimes I still have a hard time sharing my feelings and problems with her. I still tend to internalize my problems and keep them to myself and try to work these issues out by myself. Now I know it sounds like a lot of negatives to this upbringing but I also see a lot of positives. I have become a strong independent person that has the ability to make my own decisions, I am not a follower if I don’t wish to do something I have to ability to say no and do what I want I am not a follower. Another positive is with my children, I know how it feels to be let down by your parents and I have made sure that my kids know that I will always been there for them no matter what. My kids already know that dad will be there for them. I think one problem with society today is that the people rely too much on someone else to take care of their needs, i.e. the government. People need to be responsible for
The sociological imagination is the notion that allows a person to understand the greater picture of oneself and one’s role in society. In this assignment I will examine my own life from a sociologist perspective. I will look at my position as an individual in society and explain how sociological imagination has shaped made me into the person that I have become today. In order to effectively due this, I must provide you with my background. At the age of eight years old my parents divorced, my father was awarded custody. Soon after this he was injured in an accident and was not able to care of me so I was sent to live with my grandparents. The reason I had to live with grandparents was that after their divorce …show more content…
I believe this as a result of the fact that in my life both my parents have never been there for me. I have always had to rely on myself thus making it hard to let anyone get close to me. Today I have a wonderful wife and two great boys, yet it took a long time for me to trust and let my wife in, and still sometimes I still have a hard time sharing my feelings and problems with her. I still tend to internalize my problems and keep them to myself and try to work these issues out by myself. Now I know it sounds like a lot of negatives to this upbringing but I also see a lot of positives. I have become a strong independent person that has the ability to make my own decisions, I am not a follower if I don’t wish to do something I have to ability to say no and do what I want I am not a follower. Another positive is with my children, I know how it feels to be let down by your parents and I have made sure that my kids know that I will always been there for them no matter what. My kids already know that dad will be there for them. I think one problem with society today is that the people rely too much on someone else to take care of their needs, i.e. the government. People need to be responsible for