In lesson one I understood that sociological imagination is the understanding that social outcomes are based on what we do. For example, the things we do are shaped the way they are for reasons, like how people around us act, situations we are in and what we think is right or wrong, which results in some sort of outcome, it’s basically seeing things socially and how they interact. It’s a complex concept that I’ve tried to read into and understand; yet I’m still not clear on it. The sociological perspective of this is really focusing on human behavior and connecting that to the society as a whole, which this “The Changing American Family” really does, it’s taking all types of behavior and situations and looking at our society as a whole to see how these behaviors are affecting it society itself. Another way of understanding both of these concepts is thinking about a couple from the 50’s and how things were back then, wives stayed home cooked, cleaned and took care of the family while the husband worked all day and took care of the “manly” jobs around the house in their free time.…