Sociological Imagination And Abortion

In our world, each person is entitled to their own opinion and point of view. The human race has formed its way of living through creating structures of societies and communities. Within each society people are accustomed to the rules and morals around them. We learn to live by these rules, but often forget that other communities may possess different sets of rules. Our social location is important in forming our beliefs through our personal characteristics. This can include race, gender, religion and age. Because different societies hold different morals, we are subject to social problems, defined as issues that concern large numbers of people that need to be changed. As I looked deeper into social issues that are taking place in our nation …show more content…
This dispute includes opposite outlooks from two groups, pro life and pro choice. Pro life advocates believe that the law should prohibit women from having abortions. Pro choice advocates believe that women have a right to their own bodies and the law should permit women to have abortions. Each group has strong and valid arguments, which makes this debate extremely difficult to resolve. As I did my analysis on the attitudes of Castleton students, I used the sociological imagination which helped me view the larger picture of the case. C. Wright Mills ' term "sociological imagination" can be defined as a way of thinking that one can possess, by being able to look at our society from a non biased opinion, and on a larger scale. It is having awareness of our culture and what our role is in history, as well as being able to distinguish one 's personal troubles from world wide issues. After collecting surveys from about seventy Castleton students, I first looked at the overall amount of pro life advocates to pro choice advocates. My hypothesis was correct in that the majority of students were pro choice with 78.3%, and the minority of students were pro life with …show more content…
I was correct with my hypothesis. 85.7% of women were pro choice advocates, leaving 14.3% as pro life advocates. 73.2% of men were pro choice advocates and 26.8% were pro life advocates. Making sense of the results, I looked at outside factors of why it could be that more women are pro choice and more men are pro life advocates. From a sociological standpoint, males do not possess the capability to have babies, which is something to be considering while looking at these results. If their significant other was to get pregnant, they would not be the ones who would have the ultimate say in the decision. They also would not be as worried about putting their bodies at risk, because they are not the ones who have to potentially carry a baby in their stomach for nine