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People experience daily struggles; chapter one describes this as being in a trap. People go through obstacles and are also unaware of the societies’ issues connection to their personal lives. The sociological imagination concept is introduced to allow individuals to be consciously aware of their personal lives as well as the society as a whole; they go hand in hand. Lives are different, not everyone can be doing well. For instance, chapter one explains that when a war happens, children can be left without a father, or parents without a child which is a downside to war. But, for an insurance salesperson, it increases their business because many people need coverage from the aftermath of war. The war heavily influences the country itself. The

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