C. Wright Mills coined the concept social imagination in his book published in 1959. In the publication, Mills defines social imagination as “the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society." In order to have social imagination, a person needs to exhibit the abstract capacity to see things from different points of view (Crossman). In other words, Mills explain sociological imagination as the capacity to see problems and society with a different approach with which a person will normally do. For example, a person who normally is uptight to ideas, might find sociological imagination by having a more creative approach to the problems. “Through the sociological imagination, we can see not only what is real, but
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This theory tries to explain the reasons behind crime and the why crime continues to exist even in developed countries. He explains that “society puts pressure on individuals to achieve socially accepted goals” (Merton’s Strain Theory of Deviance). In other words, when socially acceptable goal is set in place, like the American dream, people will try their hardest to achieve that dream. However, sometimes even when people try their hardest the gap between them and the goal is too big. In that moment individuals are hit by what Merton called the Strain. According to the Strain theory at that point people will faced their reality and can adapt in five different ways. With Conformity, Innovation, ritualism, retreatism or rebellion. Furthermore, the strain in society represents the urge of people to fulfill the “American Dream”. People will commit crimes as a form of relieve. If person is suffering from harassment or just financial problems they will use violence and crimes to relieve the strain. For example a person will prostitute or sell drugs in other to obtain clothes or trendy electronic in order to position themselves within the …show more content…
Freud presents the idea that children that see some kind of trauma can developed a twisted type of affection for their mothers. In the other hand, children that are not expose to trauma do not experience this type of complex. Additionally, he states that because of the sexual affection that children develop for their mothers, they also have resentful feelings for their fathers. The best example for this theory is incest. Some people develop fixations to their parents and they will compete for that parent affection with
This theory tries to explain the reasons behind crime and the why crime continues to exist even in developed countries. He explains that “society puts pressure on individuals to achieve socially accepted goals” (Merton’s Strain Theory of Deviance). In other words, when socially acceptable goal is set in place, like the American dream, people will try their hardest to achieve that dream. However, sometimes even when people try their hardest the gap between them and the goal is too big. In that moment individuals are hit by what Merton called the Strain. According to the Strain theory at that point people will faced their reality and can adapt in five different ways. With Conformity, Innovation, ritualism, retreatism or rebellion. Furthermore, the strain in society represents the urge of people to fulfill the “American Dream”. People will commit crimes as a form of relieve. If person is suffering from harassment or just financial problems they will use violence and crimes to relieve the strain. For example a person will prostitute or sell drugs in other to obtain clothes or trendy electronic in order to position themselves within the …show more content…
Freud presents the idea that children that see some kind of trauma can developed a twisted type of affection for their mothers. In the other hand, children that are not expose to trauma do not experience this type of complex. Additionally, he states that because of the sexual affection that children develop for their mothers, they also have resentful feelings for their fathers. The best example for this theory is incest. Some people develop fixations to their parents and they will compete for that parent affection with