Many Individuals have never heard of the game called SPENT nor do they know what the game is all about. “SPENT is an online game about surviving poverty and homelessness which was created by ad agency McKinney (McKinney, SPENT, 2011)”. Homelessness and poverty are major problems among many individuals who live in the United States. The ad agency McKinney understood that homelessness and poverty was a major factor in America. They wanted people who are more fortunate to understand what life is like for those who are less fortunate than themselves. According to our Essentials of Sociology book, SPENT is a Sociological Imagination type of online game. “Sociological Imagination is the application of imaginative thought to asking and answering of sociological questions. Someone using the sociological imagination “thinks himself away” from the familiar routines of daily life (Anthony Giddens, 2013, pp. 5-6)”. The reason why SPENT is a sociological imagination type of game is because the ad agency McKinney wants people to step into the shoes of another person and see what the other side is like for those who are less fortunate. In order for us to have a better understanding we have to use our imagine which SPENT job is to help us do just
Many Individuals have never heard of the game called SPENT nor do they know what the game is all about. “SPENT is an online game about surviving poverty and homelessness which was created by ad agency McKinney (McKinney, SPENT, 2011)”. Homelessness and poverty are major problems among many individuals who live in the United States. The ad agency McKinney understood that homelessness and poverty was a major factor in America. They wanted people who are more fortunate to understand what life is like for those who are less fortunate than themselves. According to our Essentials of Sociology book, SPENT is a Sociological Imagination type of online game. “Sociological Imagination is the application of imaginative thought to asking and answering of sociological questions. Someone using the sociological imagination “thinks himself away” from the familiar routines of daily life (Anthony Giddens, 2013, pp. 5-6)”. The reason why SPENT is a sociological imagination type of game is because the ad agency McKinney wants people to step into the shoes of another person and see what the other side is like for those who are less fortunate. In order for us to have a better understanding we have to use our imagine which SPENT job is to help us do just