Consider the issue of student debt in the current educational environment in the lens of “the sociological imagination.” How might you use the sociological imagination to understand different aspects of the increase in student loan debt in the twenty-first century? First, describe what it means to use a sociological imagination; then apply this to the student debt crisis.
What will be an ideal response?
but might include the point that sociological imagination links personal troubles with public issues. They may point out that individual students take on debt and may see it as their own personal problem or failing until they connect it to the enormous debt shared by an entire generation, affecting their choices and influencing their purchasing ability in ways that affect the entire economy.
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a) True b) False
Most of the violence committed by blacks in the 1960s was initiated
a. By the Black Panthers b. By the Black Muslims c. By the police or spontaneously in ghettos with little organization or planning d. By whites
According to anomie theory, why do people commit crimes?
a. because they have psychological disorders b. because they learn to commit crimes from their friends c. because they lack self control d. because they cannot achieve certain universal goals
In the United States, unlike most other nations, women control men's decisions about reproduction and access to abortion that, in turn, decreases unwanted pregnancies and nonmarital birth rates.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)