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What is the sociological imagination? The sociological imagination, in short, is the realization that the individual is interconnected with other individuals to make up a community or society as a whole. It can be broken down into two parts, public issues and personal troubles. The sociological imagination is the realization that for an individual to prevent or end their personal troubles, they may have to look at the issues in their society. Societies change for better or for worse and always have different sets of issues. These issues will affect the individuals in that society accordingly. When an individual is experiencing a private problem, we can say that they have troubles, but when society is experiencing a problem, we call it a public issue. Not that these things are unrelated. For instance, if gas prices went up by ten dollars a gallon, then that society would have a very public issue to deal with. However, the middle-class soccer mom in this society would have major......

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