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 (CDC) 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 17, and watch the video. When you've finished watching the video, come back to the test, and answer the following questions:Sociologists would suggest that it is too easy to blame individuals for social problems such as suicide; instead, sociologists are interested in studying a social problem such as
suicide from the perspective of the sociological imagination. Which of the following best describes the sociological imagination?
A. the ability for individuals to exercise free will
B. the ability to understand the relationship between individual lives and larger social forces
C. the ability to evaluate claims about truth by using logical reasoning
D. the ability to understand society based on science and facts alone
Answer: B
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