Chris Cleveland
Week 1 “Social imagination”
Social imagination is an awareness and understanding of how one’s life experiences play a role in their opinions, decision making, and views of society. We all have our own social location, and social imagination helps us step outside of our comfort zone to view the world through objective eyes. Social imagination is questioning things we take for granted to be natural behavior or beliefs. “Making the familiar strange” was the perfect way for the text to describe it. Take something that is a widely accepted behavior and analyze it. This is how one can go about acquiring the social imagination. An example from the text was the question “Why go to college?” The question is broken down to compare
Week 1 “Social imagination”
Social imagination is an awareness and understanding of how one’s life experiences play a role in their opinions, decision making, and views of society. We all have our own social location, and social imagination helps us step outside of our comfort zone to view the world through objective eyes. Social imagination is questioning things we take for granted to be natural behavior or beliefs. “Making the familiar strange” was the perfect way for the text to describe it. Take something that is a widely accepted behavior and analyze it. This is how one can go about acquiring the social imagination. An example from the text was the question “Why go to college?” The question is broken down to compare