Essay On Sociological Imagination

A sociological imagination is when one can consider everyday life from the perspective of a sociologist. For example, when someone goes to a sporting event, their purpose is to cheer on their favorite team and to have fun. In reality, though, they are participating in collective effervescence. This is when a large group of people, with different backgrounds, come together to all support the same event. A person with a sociological imagination would understand and think about what sporting events are actually representing. This imagination is primarily a way for people to think about the world in a different and exciting way.

The world has modernized considerably since the early 1900s, society is more accepting and understanding. Society still have a lot of room for improvement though, individuals still get judged due to the color of their skin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and economic class. The inequalities among people are very real and exist even though people deny or are ignorant about these inequalities. A sociological imagination can interpret, analyze, and sort out the reasons for these inequalities and

Sociology can help people to address and alter these inequalities. Using sociological techniques, one can learn how to avoid creating and reinforcing these known inequalities. One technique is simply to not acknowledge the differences in people. Acting ‘normal’ around minority groups will help to erase these inequalities. Learning about the origin of the inequalities and showing others that there is no difference between one group to another will make it extremely easy to ignore the differences. A part of sociology, though, is to get society as a whole to have the same thoughts. Convincing one person that inequalities among people are irrational is one step towards a whole community feeling that way. Unless all these people can gain a sociological imagination, this could be a hard feat to