SAGE News Clips: Youth Depression and SuicideDescription: In this video, we meet a mother who agonizes over the suicide of her 14-year-old daughter. While often considered a solitary phenomenon, the Centers for Disease Control estimates that suicide rates have increased 24% between 1999 and 2014. Watch this video to learn more about the large-scale social patterns surrounding suicide rates.Click on the above link to access the Interactive eBook. Once you've signed in, scroll to page 33 and watch the video. When you've finished watching the video, come back to the test and answer the following questions:Sociologists are interested in studying social problems such as suicide from the perspective of the sociological imagination. The sociological imagination is best described as the ability
______.
A. of individuals to exercise free will
B. to understand the relationship between individual lives and larger social forces
C. to evaluate claims about truth using logical reasoning
D. to understand society based on science and facts alone
Answer: B
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