Sociological Analysis: Alice Through The Looking Glass

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Every other high school student will openly confess that the mere presence of other people has triggered feelings of discomfort and tension. The level of discomfort and tension is linked to personal insecurity, which is displayed in social situations. This personal insecurity is controlled by what one believes other people think of them. Like Alice in the movie Alice Through the Looking Glass, we embark on a race to change our self-image to form an ideal self that will fit in with the norms and motives of the country and time period (Bobin 2016). Religion and education are often viewed as the major Looking Glasses of civilization, which has inflicted more unnecessary human malevolence than Mother Nature. The term Sociological imagination was introduced in 1959 to allow people to make more self-aware decisions.The American sociologist C. Wright Mills developed the term Sociological imagination in 1959 in an attempt to explain awareness presented by Sociology. Sociological imagination allows those within the discipline of sociology to question and answer important social commonalities anew. The outcome of our commonalities depend on norms and motives as well as the country and time period. The social context and social action which shape our values affects how people react towards us individually, or/and collectively. By using this …show more content…

This seemed to stick with me because it shows how people have their priorities set and what kind of morals they have and proves that all over the world people tend to like things that to us would seem highly absurd to even think

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