SOCS 185N Week 1 Discussion: The Sociological Imagination and Social Causes of Suicide
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SOCS 185N Week 1
Sociologist C. Wright Mills preferred to call the sociological perspective the sociological imagination, and he saw it transforming personal troubles into public issues. Let us begin our discussion this week by considering suicide, which is thoroughly explored in Chapter 1 of the textbook. For the initial post, address the following:
- How does the sociological imagination help to examine private acts such as suicide within a larger societal context?
- What are some examples of social forces influencing youth suicide trends in the United States, suicide trends in India, and suicide trends in the U.S. military?
- Use the sociological imagination to explain your observations, and how the sociological imagination helps us consider the causes and possible solutions to suicide.
Follow-Up Post Instructions
- Respond to at least two peers or one peer and the instructor. Further the dialogue by providing more information and clarification and/or include perspectives from outside scholarly sources shared in the discussion forum by classmates and/or the instructor.
