Question 1. Define the sociological imagination. Use it to discuss how something typically considered to be a "personal problem" is actually related to the larger social structure in our society. (You may look at obesity, drug addiction, poverty, unwanted pregnancy, mental illness...)
Question 2. What is social structure?
Question 3. Define structural functionalism, symbolic interactionism, and conflict theory. What does each perspective emphasize?
Question 4. What is the value in understanding the way that people are interconnected? Why is it important to recognize the way we are shaped by social institutions like education, healthcare, religion, government, economics, and the media?
Question 5. What was the most interesting thing you read in the readings for this module?