I'd like for us to use our sociological imagination. C. Wright Mills (a famous sociologist) described the sociological imagination as: "the vivid awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society". Choose one social problem (such as: abortion, bullying, alcoholism, date rape, capital punishment/death penalty, racism, poverty, eating disorders, etc.) and describe, in your ideal society, how you would combat your selected issue to solve it. Describe the experience of those affected by the social problem and how their experience would be shifted through the changes made in your ideal society. (200 words) (15 points) 2. Go into more depth within your chosen social problem. Examine your selected social problem and theorize why your social problem exists in the first place. Which sociological theory do you identify most with as you describe your social problem (see page 15 of your text/figure 1.7 & table 1.2). Why? (100-150 words) .

1. I'd like for us to use our sociological imagination. C. Wright
Mills (a famous sociologist) described the sociological
imagination as: "the vivid awareness of the relationship between
personal experience and the wider society". Choose one social
problem (such as: abortion, bullying, alcoholism, date rape,
capital punishment/death penalty, racism, poverty, eating
disorders, etc.) and describe, in your ideal society, how you
would combat your selected issue to solve it. Describe the
experience of those affected by the social problem and how
their experience would be shifted through the changes made in
your ideal society. (200 words) (15 points)
2. Go into more depth within your chosen social problem.
Examine your selected social problem and theorize why your
social problem exists in the first place. Which sociological
theory do you identify most with as you describe your social
problem (see page 15 of your text/figure 1.7 & table 1.2). Why?
(100-150 words)