Realities fade in and out of existence within everyone’s lives, and it’s not always easy to tell what will and what won’t have a lasing impact on you. Mills suggests that we all experience various and specific milieux which are often caused by changes to ourselves and our societies. While people do not always see the troubles and triumphs they go through holistically, they still try to understand their changes and try to look beyond them to synthesize who they are and why they are that way. The sociological imagination allows us to understand the the big picture of our lives and how they exist within society.
Mills asks first how the structure of the society in which you live acts as a whole. Having lived in Little Rock, Arkansas, my whole life, some of the essential components of society here consist of stereotypically traditional southern values. It stands in the midst of social change away from its history of racism toward a more …show more content…
Once I was old enough to join my sisters at the Montessori school, I went there for my second year of pre-school. By the end of this year my oldest sister was in the fourth grade and my mom could not find a middle school with a strong enough education for her, so she decided to home school all three of us. During my kindergarten year as a true homeschooler my mom found a virtual school that would guide her through teaching us in a more effective way with a curriculum she liked, so from first through third grade I did Arkansas Virtual School at Home(ARVS). Before the fourth grade started I told my mom I needed to go to real school because I didn’t feel like I was getting enough out of ARVS strictly through the education, and that while I had my friends from church and home school, I wanted to be around kids my own age on a more consistent
Mills asks first how the structure of the society in which you live acts as a whole. Having lived in Little Rock, Arkansas, my whole life, some of the essential components of society here consist of stereotypically traditional southern values. It stands in the midst of social change away from its history of racism toward a more …show more content…
Once I was old enough to join my sisters at the Montessori school, I went there for my second year of pre-school. By the end of this year my oldest sister was in the fourth grade and my mom could not find a middle school with a strong enough education for her, so she decided to home school all three of us. During my kindergarten year as a true homeschooler my mom found a virtual school that would guide her through teaching us in a more effective way with a curriculum she liked, so from first through third grade I did Arkansas Virtual School at Home(ARVS). Before the fourth grade started I told my mom I needed to go to real school because I didn’t feel like I was getting enough out of ARVS strictly through the education, and that while I had my friends from church and home school, I wanted to be around kids my own age on a more consistent