Applying the sociological imagination to understanding unemployment would lead you to __________
A) conclude that people without jobs are most likely incompetent workers
B) look at the way that individual and larger social factors are both at work
C) realize that people are not responsible for their actions because society shapes the outcome
D) see that evolutionary biology has most likely determined who is unemployed
Answer: B
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