Sociological Imagination was a term first used by the sociologist C. Wright Mills. Sociological Imagination can be defined as “the ability to make connections between our personal experiences and the larger forces of history (lecture notes).” The cultural and social historical events are the sociological structures that can affect our life. This paper will use sociological imagination to connect my personal life to some historical events in the past years. This includes historical events such as the One-Child Policy in China, the Great Recession, the 26th Amendment and how they affected me. The population of Republic of China reached around 1 billion people in the late 1970s and early 1980s, in order to contain the massive overpopulation
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My heart was broken and I was sad and angry. My mother abandoned me and now my family is getting broken up a second time in my life. Life was difficult. My parents were fighting a lot ever since I was adopted. I did not know but at the time they adopted me, it wasn’t from their own money. They won some lottery and instead of spending that money on my siblings, they decided to adopt me. In 2008, the great recession happened and caused many people to lose their job and house. My parents were lucky to keep their jobs but their salary took a hit. My father who was a lawyer was working overtime but he was still making less money than what he usually made and my mother went from a sales manager to working as a sales representative and a manager because they did not have enough people to work as sales representatives for her company. The recession affected them both and from then on, even after I was adopted, every fight they had was about money. My father would overspend because he was used to money coming in all the time, but my mother had a budget to make sure we would have enough money for food and such. They would collide over everything and the stress of the recession was too much for them to handle, so after four years, they decided to get a divorce. The recession caused my family to split up again because of they could not handle how
My heart was broken and I was sad and angry. My mother abandoned me and now my family is getting broken up a second time in my life. Life was difficult. My parents were fighting a lot ever since I was adopted. I did not know but at the time they adopted me, it wasn’t from their own money. They won some lottery and instead of spending that money on my siblings, they decided to adopt me. In 2008, the great recession happened and caused many people to lose their job and house. My parents were lucky to keep their jobs but their salary took a hit. My father who was a lawyer was working overtime but he was still making less money than what he usually made and my mother went from a sales manager to working as a sales representative and a manager because they did not have enough people to work as sales representatives for her company. The recession affected them both and from then on, even after I was adopted, every fight they had was about money. My father would overspend because he was used to money coming in all the time, but my mother had a budget to make sure we would have enough money for food and such. They would collide over everything and the stress of the recession was too much for them to handle, so after four years, they decided to get a divorce. The recession caused my family to split up again because of they could not handle how