SOCS 185N Week 1 Assignment: Sociological Imagination Essay (2 Versions)

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

• Textbook: Chapter 1
• Lesson
• Minimum of 3 outside scholarly sources

Instructions

The textbook reading for the week explores social forces that can affect the seemingly private act of suicide. For this assignment, conduct scholarly research on a different private or individualistic act that could be regarded as a broader social problem or social issue, something other than suicide. You may choose one of the following or a topic of your own:

• Homelessness
• Veteran homelessness
• Domestic violence
• Addiction
• Obesity

In an essay, address the following:

• Determine how the sociological imagination can help understand that problem.
• Compare and contrast that research with the textbook’s explanation of ways sociologists apply the sociological imagination to understand a problem.
• Your paper must contain scholarly support in the form of quotes or paraphrases with respective citations from assigned reading (the textbook/lesson) and the outside scholarly sources that you identify on your own.

Writing Requirements (APA format)

• Length: 2-3 pages (not including references page)
• 1-inch margins
• Double spaced
• 12-point Times New Roman font
• Running header in the upper left of all pages
• Page number in the upper right of all pages
• Parenthetical in-text citations included and formatted in APA style
• References page (minimum of 3 outside scholarly sources plus the textbook/lesson)