Sociological Imagination And Public Issues By C. Wright Mills

C. Wright Mills has defined sociological imagination as a connection between history and biography. He explains how personal issues are connected to public issues. Personal issues according to C. Wright Mills meaning a person’s character and how their troubles are limited to the surrounding area they are personally aware of. Public issues meaning the local environment around a specific individual, which is clearly limited to their life as well. Over the years, it has been common for teens to become sexually active at a young age. But, in earlier years, people would be married younger and plan to have children to help them with work around the house. Today, things are different and teens are having sex because the hear their friends talk about sex or hear how their friends have been sexually active and want to do it themselves. Teenage years are tough, and boys and girls don’t

There are aspects to take in consideration with all the teenage mothers, like the rise in poverty or health issues of her or her child. There are higher health issues for both the child and the mom the younger girls have children. Many times children are born premature and have to fight to stay alive. Teen mothers are also more oblivious to their actions and there are higher risks for careless acts from pregnant teens, like drinking and smoking during or after pregnancy. Also with the public looking at her, if the teen decided to get an abortion, she would sometimes have to deal with the protestors at the abortion clinics who are against these actions. Other public issues are that there are becoming more uneducated teenage mothers because many drop out of high school. Without a good education, it becomes hard to get a steady job or career. Because of this, these nearly 400,000 American girls between the ages 15-19 rely on the government to help them with money and aid and that becomes more of a problem overall for the United States as