Critical Evaluation of the Statement. the 'sociological Imagination’ Has No Relevance to the Contemporary Workplace

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CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THE STATEMENT. THE ‘SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION’ HAS NO RELEVANCE TO THE CONTEMPORARY WORKPLACE

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Critical Evaluation of the Statement the ‘Sociological Imagination’ Has No Relevance to the Contemporary Workplace

First of all, in the scope of this paper it is important to rely to the sociological imagination in order to evaluate its impact on the working place and to characterize it. This term has been offered in 1959 by American sociologist C. Wright Mills in order to give a description of the insight, which is offered by sociology (Adam, 2003). It is mainly based on the tendency in Western societies, which are directed for the observation of the issues which happen to human being as a result of an individual’s “characteristics, choices and preferences” (1984, p.2). What happens to us and others is unique and private. From the other hand, the economic, social and the political changes have the large scale impact on the individuals. One of the core reasons for that is that the human being is the social being and, consequently, is impacted by the social environment in the major areas of the life. According to Brown, White and Redding (1984) Practical application of this term is the following- to explanation of the relevance and nature of the sociological aspect of human life.

In his scientific research Mills has outlined the problem of unemployment as an evident example for the statement that human being is influenced by the individual and own preference and choice (Richmond, 2005) and at the same time, there is a significant impact of the social environment. On an individualistic level, unemployed is considered as the private trouble, and at the same time, in the case of the mass unemployment in the country, it is the public concern (Silverman and Propp, 1990).

While discussing the sociological imagination in the terms of employment, of self realization and self actualization of the individual, it is important to outline the following information. People usually consider that they are aware about the things, which affect them, the role of particular issues and situations in life etc. In other words, the psychological aspect of socialization seems to be clear for everyone. In some cases such understanding may cause the following consequence - it may seem that we are able to understand the background and the nature of the actions we do. This International Standards Office (ISO) (1998) statement is true to some extent, but there are still some margins of such self-knowledge. One of the score sociological tasks in this case implies evaluation of these boundaries, relevance and understanding the cases when the personal trouble or some personal event is the expression of some public issue (ISO, 1998).