Sociological Imagination And Homelessness

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C. Wright Mills defines Sociological Imagination as “the vivid awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society”. In other words it means that people should be able to separate their  own thoughts,ideas and feelings and look into a whole different perspective of society that's around them. And if people are open to new ideas apart from your own then i do believe people are capable of using the sociological imagination. Sociologically defining one's culture from others is that everyone were raised with certain beliefs and rules that everyone is different towards different situations. For example, people have different beliefs like their religion to which some celebrate christmas and birthdays while others don't celebrate that. And also having to dress a certain way that some girls have to not show any skin at all because they have to have respect …show more content…

Kal Marx states that there is two classes of people whom are the workers and the owners and states  the fact that the owner doesn't care about their workers but produce wealth whatever it takes but the workers believe in their owners that they have their best interest of them and take care of them. And under this theory many people in a capitalistic society only see wealth as something you work hard for and see the poor and homelessness as being lazy and not a hard worker and only want to receive welfare and others to take care of them. Marx believed that homelessness people are often the results of shortcomings and is based on their personality flaws they have instead of society itself. This theory can explains why  capitalism people resent those like the poor and homelessness people because they aren't dedicated in life and aren't at a higher educated level. These different classes are created by Capitalist Society who choose to be competitive and greedy for power and cause such hatred towards those below

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