Sociological Imagination
Sociological imagination is the showy awareness of the connection between experience and the wider society. In effect mills says that the sociological imagination as the powe to recognize situations and condition in a larger social way and observe how exchanges and actions influence other individuals and situations. Sociological imagination helping us understanding our surroundings. The setting where we havethe bassis upon in time and the social norms that have been placed by changes.Norms being observe the unwritten rules that we use throughout live. C. Wright Mills expounds the connection of history and biography into the ideals that structure how your life will evolve.When we attempt to understand mill’s concept better, we look at the social imagination that is involved in the taking or drinking of coffee and sociological imagination.(wright c. mills,2013,15).
Coffee Drinking and Social Imagination
Almost various behaviors do have have sociological imagination applied to them. This paper discussed various to social imagination worked when used. By using for example is the application of social imagination in drinking a cup of coffee with this we move beyond the assuming that any various personal experience are needed to evidence for understanding societies or the whole social lives in peoples. It is shown better in a discussion of drinking coffee in the company of a friend or another individual as an everyday activity. The idea points to five ways where coffee drinking is viewed a fresh way. If we thought us away from the immediacy of my/our circumstances one of the many ways where coffee drinking can be viewed as the a sign of value in coffee drinking and as a social ritual. It possesses a so-called value as part of our daily activities while the ritual itself is much more important than taking the coffee. Two people meeting to have coffee are more interested in getting together and chatting with each other than in what they drink.(Murphy.p,2013, 29)
The second one is the coffee’s category where as a drug has been accepted in the western countries which contrast both with substance seen as anti-social in the west and the prevention use of coffee in other cultures. A lot of people drink coffee for the extra lift it provides. Late night studies among students and long hours in the office are made more tolerable by the taking of coffee. As the coffee is a habit-forming substance while coffee addicts are not regarded as drug users by most people in the western culture, as opposed to individuals taking marijuana.
Thirdly, the coffee’s consumption and availability to individuals, who eventually get caught up in an entangled set of social and economic relationships stretching across the globe. As a product coffee links people in some of the affluent and most developed parts of the planet. As it is consumed by the most wealthy countries but grown and produced mostly by the poor countries, where it also provided many countries with their most biggest sources of foreign money.(Giddens A & Sutton W 45)
The fourth way is the relatively recent introduction of coffee into diets that evolved bananas, and other foods. In the late ninetieth century, this is traced back to the colonial times in South America and Africa. Although drinking of coffee originated from the Middle East, its many consumption dates back from the period of western enlargement, centuries ago. The colonial heritage had an enormous impact on the development of the global coffee trade.
Fifth, coffee taking is the significance as a lifestyle choosing in terms of the brands people choose to take. And their attitude to the manner in the way the product is manufactured and traded and even the choice of where to sit and take it from. Consumers may choice to take organic coffee, natural coffee that has been decaffeinated or coffee that has been fairly traded through schemes that pay full market prices, to small coffee producers in developing youthful countries (Kendall,D 2009, 160)
Looking at general imagination and thebasis of that vision as impossible is another way to look at it. In other words, it is saying that imagination is geographyical . By using the simplest illustration of mathematical landscape as the continuous deformation of the coffee cup into a donut, we have to understand geography first, in order to get this concept. Topology as the study of invariance under conditions of transformation that is also a useful definition or simple definition of the imagination. It also grasps the comparable of what is dissimilar .as the societies have to do the same.(Ferrate J, 2010, 89)
Therefore, most of times, people are usually not in a position to make any distinction between social network effects and the different individual problems. Because we often depend too much on common sense, we can only understand what is happening and why it is going on by revealing the effects sociological imagination in us of our history and society. Our ability to choose and to act freely is constrained by our history and our large social context. Looking back to our example of the sociological imagination, taking a cup of coffee after waking up in the morning or taking a cup of coffee while in the company of a friend is viewed as an ordinary everyday activity. Where applying the sociological imagination to this daily activity means asking questions and looking for answers to better understand it. While drinking a cup of coffee, the issues that we are bound to come to our minds are questions like, where did the coffee come? Or how much it costs to produce just one cup of coffee? The complexity this concept sets in when this further sociological imagination is pursued. And by making it easier to understand the concept further.
When sited in a cafe drinking coffee and thinking of the efforts exerted to produce one cup of coffee. It’s wise to consider the price that people are paid for their labor in coffee harvesting, the efforts that are asserted to produce quality products and the price paid for buying that same coffee. Thus, the difference that occurs in the production cost and consumption cost of use that leaves you with a major question of the fairness in trade that is involved in this process. (Francis. A,2010, 230)
Another aspect of the sociological imagination that mills discussed in his book, the sociological imagination is where he lays the most emphasis, which is the possibility for the future. Sociology helps us analyze current and exciting patterns of social life. But it also helps us to see far beyond some of the possible future that’s open to us. Through the sociological imagination, we can see what is in the case and what could become of it should we desire to make it that way.
Taking of coffee is also viewed as way to/or a process in which making new friends over a cup of coffee is seen a norm. While breaking the barrier of strangeness by sharing a cup of coffee with people that are considered strangers at first. Then becoming friends over a period. The sociological imagination in this scenario helps understand its concept of bringing people closer together. (Rosenberg M, &Turner H, 1990,96)
The idea of the sociological imagination moves from a visionary opening through to a scratch analysis of the dominant trends in the American sociology which entered circulation in the 1959 book by C. Wright Mills in the centers on the eponymous ideals of the sociological imagination. Mills lays out a vision for sociology, political and engaged, founded on drawing out on the connections between the sweep of history and the unfolding of individual lives.(Bessant J & Watts R,2007,61)
As we conclude the sociological imagination concept in a cup of coffee, expounds further understanding into sociological imagination. And lets us see another way of thinking that’s further from the normal way we think while also encouraging people to think far beyond the ordinary thinking. Though it seems simple, the complexity that comes out of the out of the box thinking is the deeper understanding needed to get this concept of the sociological imagination that mill expounds in his book. When we use the sociological imagination this paper as looked at as to why sociologist has taken a keen interest in coffee taking, in the diet as a component of health and in nutrition and related subjects.
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