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First: Sociological Imagination in my own words is the individual’s opinion on what Sociological really stands for within society. When I think of just the word "imagination", all I can really think of is the ability to define Sociological Imagination as one's self defining this meaning. I can just literally implement my own rules to the meaning of this to be the most important for everyone to understand. Sociological Imagination is like The Theory of Everything, you must create a thesis as to what you are trying to understand to prove a point within the conclusion. Everyone including C. Wright Mills has their own approach as to what to truly study in society, we all think in general differently when it comes to understanding Sociological Imagination.
Second: Reading the Willis excerpt was like reading an Ethnographic research assignment. It also consisted of Participant Observation when Willis was doing his study towards observing the twelve working-class boys that he called “the lads”. Understanding this entire concept/study is pretty tough, for there is so much information about Willis’ work within every page of “Learning to Labor”. Comparing these working class-class boys to modern day boys is no-where near comparable in my opinion. This study was conducted in the 1970’s. That was a different time period when society’s view on work was different. More than forty years later if this study was recon ducted the outcome would have a completely different outcome.Bottom of
