This assignment is the first step to the essay that you will work to complete throughout the term. You are required to submit only the Introduction part, and should have the following:
Introduction: Write a paragraph introducing C.W. Mills’s Sociological Imagination and give a general overview of how you’ll be applying it to the personal situation that you will discuss in your paper. To do this, first, describe sociological imagination. Then, clearly specify your topic by providing a brief description (1-2 sentences) of the personal situation that you have selected. Next, identify three chapters that will be utilized to draw sociological concepts from that you will use to analyze your personal situation. Lastly, identify one sociological theory from the text that you will use to analyze your personal situation (e.g., conflict theory or symbolic interactionism). The purpose of this essay is to apply C. W. Mills’s Sociological Imagination concept to explain a personal situation. The essay will demonstrate the student’s ability to use sociological concepts & theories learned in the course, to describe a personal situation. The topic is left to the student’s discretion.
The Essay paper should have the following 5 content areas:
1. Introduction: In this first content area, write a paragraph introducing C. W. Mills’s concept of sociological imagination, and give a general overview of how you will be applying it to the personal situation that you will discuss in your paper.
2. Personal Explanation: In this second content area, describe your personal situation/topic. Based on whether the situation is a current one or a past one, describe how you dealt or are dealing with it. You can also pick a situation from a person’s life who is closely related to you or whose experience affected you. You should know the person well enough to write the essay.
Describe what caused the problem, who were involved, what were others’ and your roles in the situation, and if a resolution was reached. This section is all about your account of your situation and should be no longer than four paragraphs (3/4 – 1 page).
3. Sociological Imagination: In this third content area, analyze your personal situation by applying sociological imagination, i.e., examine how society and social forces affected your situation. This section should be the most substantial portion of your essay. You should use terms and concepts from at least 3 different chapters from the textbook, and one sociological theory.
4. Data/Stats: Utilize at least 2 statistics or research studies from the textbook ” Conerly, T. R., Holmes, K., & Tamang, A. L. (2022). Introduction to sociology 3e. OpenStax. https://openstax.org/books/introduction-sociology-3e/pages/1-introduction” or outside sources such as the Galen College online library. The references should be scholarly and should be relevant to your situation (E.g., Inclusion of divorce rates in the US if the topic is on Divorce; inclusion of poverty rates, crime and victimization rates, or suicide rates if the topic is either on Poverty or Crime). Citing at least one outside source is required.
5. Conclusion: Write a wrap-up conclusion summarizing the major finding/themes in your paper. This should be no more than a paragraph.
your essay should be 4-6 pages in length (excluding the title page and the references page) and should be double-spaced. You will lose points if your essay is shorter than 4 full pages of content. The font should be 12-point Calibri or Times New Roman. Use APA format for your entire essay, including for references and in-text citations and edit your work carefully for spelling and grammar.
Your essay should be 4-6 pages in length (excluding the title page and the references page). It should be double-spaced on standard-sized paper (8.5” x 11”) with a 1” margin on all sides. The font should be 12-point Times New Roman or Calibri. Use APA formatting throughout your essay and cite any sources you use.
Sociological Imagination Essay Introduction & Planning So the 1st thing we’re going to do choose
content wise is that you want to provide an explanation of what sociological imagination is so. The 1st thing that I will I would want is, assume your audience. Me has 0 background in sociology.
The reason why that is a great thing to have in mind is because they can allow you to put that extra detail and explanation that you need in order for me to really envision and visualize what sociological imagination is. assume your audience does not have a background in sociology. I would suggest writing maybe 4 to 7 sentences about what sociological imagination is. I would suggest not putting any examples of what sociological imagination is. You just want to put
kind of concrete information about what C. Wright Mills was trying to convey in this notion of sociological imagination.The second content is that you want to provide a brief description of what your personal situation is so to make it really clear. make sure you’re making that personal connection to what this situation is. So really, what we’re going to be focusing on here is when we’re looking at this idea of sociological imagination, we’re looking at how a larger societal issue can impact us .s. Remember, a theory cannot be used as a concept. A theory cannot be used as a concept. When we’re looking at concepts, we could be looking at social agents. We can be looking at ethnocentrism, cultural relativism.
race ethnicity, racism. Those are examples of concepts.
So you want to choose 3 different chapters. It can be from chapter 2, 4, and 6 from Conerly, T. R., Holmes, K., & Tamang, A. L. (2022). Introduction to sociology 3e. OpenStax. https://openstax.org/books/introduction-sociology-3e/pages/1-introduction If you want
The concepts that you use do not have to be from the chapters that we have gone over. If you feel there is a chapter in the book that best aligns with your paper or your personal situation. Better feel free to use that.I want to give you free autonomy to do that.
So you can really build that personal connection to
sociological imagination and your personal situation.
One really important factor is.do not use sociological imagination book. Do not use that book. That is not where you’re going to get the 3 chapters you are going to get the 3 chapters from our textbook. We have not read soci sociological imagination by C. Wright Mills. So that is not where you’re going to getthe theories or the concepts.
Next, we have sociological theory
that can be some bulk, interactionism, functionalism, conflict theory. Those are examples of theories that you can use. Again, if you would like to use a different theory that we may not have gone over yet. It’s okay.
But you want to make sure you are using. I would suggest one theory
you do not have to use more than one I would suggest using one, because that will allow you to build a tighter and stronger connection to your personal situation, and how that would relate to sociological imagination.
Lastly, Apa. Formatting.
you want to make sure your paper is formatted in Apa. 7. Not mla, not ap.
But apa. 7. I will provide you with a resource that shows
a student
paper that has been written in Apa. 7. If you follow that template you will have no problem getting full credit on or getting credit for that aspect of it.
But I just want to show everybody what
your title page
needs to look like
This is an example
that I
got from Owl Purdue. I just put it on my own document, so it doesn’t have the annotations. So 1st thing you want to do. You want to have your title?
You want to put your title in bold.
Next.
you want to put a space between your title
and your name. So if you see
that’s doesn’t quite adhere to Apa. 7, you want to hit. Enter one more time. So you have that extra space.
Then you want to have your name.
You want to have
the the department. You can put Arts and Sciences, or I would.
or you could put the sociology department.
They need to put sociology.
Your name. And then the date in which you have written your paper.
