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.
1. 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.”
1: This week you will locate one course concept from our weekly readings in chapters 11 and 12 and research one appropriate image on how it connects to the concept. (Images should be respectful, appropriate and non-offensive to an academic setting.)
Textbook Link
https://openstax.org/books/introduction-sociology-2e/pages/1-introduction-to-sociology
(Chapters 11 and 12)
Below is a sample of the Week 5 Real World Activity and how it should be organized in your initial discussion thread:
Concept: Sociological Imagination
Image:
Photo of a woman wearing a medical mask and holding a sign that says Lost My Job
Image Citation: “Stock Images, Photos, Vectors, Video, and Music.” Shutterstock, 10 Aug. 2020, https://www.shutterstock.com/.
Article Citation: Benokraitis, N. V. (2016). Soc: Introduction to Sociology. Cengage Learning.
Textbook Definition: “The sociological imagination emphasizes the connection between personal troubles (biography) and structural (public and historical) issues” (Benokraitis, 2016, p. 5).
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 that 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 understand that this individual’s issue is “bigger” than the image perceives.
