Sociological Imagination In My Personal Life

Most people don’t live at their jobs, and only a lucky few can walk there. For the rest of the world’s employed or enterprising population, a bit of help is required to get to one’s workplace. Public transportation is a great option if you live in the metro, but if you’re commuting from outside the city, you’re probably driving yourself to work. Well, the reality is that we are all still extremely dependent on fossil fuels to run our transport vehicles, and almost everything about fossil fuels is bad—from the grave environmental and ethical impact of the way these fuels are produced and consumed, the effects their byproducts have on our health, down to the fact that it is a non-renewable, unsustainable resource.

In the article “Understanding Youth and Childhood” the author Virginia Morrow said “childhood is socially constructed in that childhood has different meanings and children have different roles and undertake different activities in different historical periods and in different cultures (Morrow,4)”. This quote shows how children back in the days were socially constructed based on culture and what the beliefs of their families were as well. But not only that it was also based on their economic status there was children from the past that had childhoods where they had to work to help sustain their family they weren’t really looked at as children instead as young adults who had to help with maintaining the household and family. However, those things today have changed drastically children are expected to go to school and learn now a day’s children can enjoy their childhood a lot more, children are required to attend school to be educated and prepare for the future since they no longer have to work at a young age to help out their families. Intersectionality was shown in the “Millennials” reading showed us how the media determines how generations happen and how social network and technology has shaped us the people which lead to the creation of the millennials.

The streets are crowded and the traffic is crazy. Mrs. Hirsch has stated that she “gets stuck in traffic many times because there are not enough roads.” The bad road conditions are becoming worse because the state government is not maintaining them. The Virginia Department of Transportation has not effectively dealt with the roads in Chesterfield county in regards to increasing population. Since more roads have not been built, it is a burden to the residents of Chesterfield county.

Bus companies are likely to earn supernormal profits due to majority of the bus routes in the UK being serviced by just one company. Therefore firms wanting to get in the market are unable to due to high barriers to entry and exit, high sunk costs and imperfect knowledge. This makes the market highly uncompetitive as the bus market is able to protect itself in the long run and gain market share. However supernormal profits depend on demand and the revenue earned by the bus market. The extract states that the bus fares don’t cover operating costs, this suggests that demand is low or the fare price has been significantly reduced due to student discounts or due to old persons bus passes which erode into the revenue, and this means that bus companies are unlikely to earn supernormal

Even though this was written many years ago, it still has a large relation to today's society. We can relate our lives to Caesar as he changes what he does to look good in front of others, Cassius’ by his concern for others thoughts on him, and Brutus’ influence from the people, to a smaller degree every day. These are the reasons why the desire to look good in front of others can lead to poor decisions, sometimes fatal ones as seen by Caesar, Cassius, and

The problem is that even if these crimes against humanity occurred and left horrible consequences for a country or a group of them times have changed and as a result things today are not taken in the same way as

If school times are pushed to the same time as elementary school hours, the schools will face a problem with lack of buses. Each school district is

Some of the kids would pack their lunches, and some just would not eat at all which is worse. Also the kids not buying lunches from the school means not as much money

Found on Page 16 chapter 1. 2. What are the main sociological research methods used to study social problems? What are the relative advantages and disadvantages to each? What are the some of the ethical considerations of social science research?

Even though I was not in traffic it was still very frustrating because drivers were very impatient. They were beeping their horns and the traffic was just moving horribly slow. The buses were also in traffic and they were letting people off of the bus early because it was taking them a very long time to get to the actual bus