Sociological Imagination enhances life’s quality
I developed sociological imagination in my childhood from my experience of growing up in a multiracial family and in different European countries, often travelling to different Nations for vacation time or, in adulthood, for job reasons. It helped me to cope with racism, and gender discrimination. It provided me with conceptual tools to understand that, although different, we are all inter-connected and social structures influence our lives (Manza, 21013.) It made me understand that everyone is valuable. Our identities are forged not only by our personality but also by societal forces, from Nation of birth, to family, schools, churches and groups we choose or find ourselves belonging to (Manza, 2013.) It has been reinforced by my interracial marriage with an American military overseas, of different religion than mine. I was born in a German-Swedish family, …show more content…
When my father died, for some reason, my mother’s anxiety symptoms reappeared. Furthermore, immigrants from Turkey were growing in numbers in North West Germany and were being objects of institutionalized racist discrimination (Manza, 2013), for instance, they were forbidden to enter certain stores or public buildings. Prejudice is a belief, about a group of people; discrimination differs in the sense that it involves actions that aim to reinforce social hierarchies and to keep minorities from advancing (Manza 2013, p.248). These immigrants were also objects of violent acts that for the majority would live the perpetrators unpunished. My mother was not feeling safe in Germany anymore; she was frightened by the racism rise, connecting it back to the Nazi ideology. My grandmother joined her and we moved to Verona, northern Italy, were in WW II her entire family was saved by American military forces. My life was dramatically changed from privileged kid to disadvantaged
I developed sociological imagination in my childhood from my experience of growing up in a multiracial family and in different European countries, often travelling to different Nations for vacation time or, in adulthood, for job reasons. It helped me to cope with racism, and gender discrimination. It provided me with conceptual tools to understand that, although different, we are all inter-connected and social structures influence our lives (Manza, 21013.) It made me understand that everyone is valuable. Our identities are forged not only by our personality but also by societal forces, from Nation of birth, to family, schools, churches and groups we choose or find ourselves belonging to (Manza, 2013.) It has been reinforced by my interracial marriage with an American military overseas, of different religion than mine. I was born in a German-Swedish family, …show more content…
When my father died, for some reason, my mother’s anxiety symptoms reappeared. Furthermore, immigrants from Turkey were growing in numbers in North West Germany and were being objects of institutionalized racist discrimination (Manza, 2013), for instance, they were forbidden to enter certain stores or public buildings. Prejudice is a belief, about a group of people; discrimination differs in the sense that it involves actions that aim to reinforce social hierarchies and to keep minorities from advancing (Manza 2013, p.248). These immigrants were also objects of violent acts that for the majority would live the perpetrators unpunished. My mother was not feeling safe in Germany anymore; she was frightened by the racism rise, connecting it back to the Nazi ideology. My grandmother joined her and we moved to Verona, northern Italy, were in WW II her entire family was saved by American military forces. My life was dramatically changed from privileged kid to disadvantaged