Who are you? How do you know? How do you know you are really who you say you are? How do you
describe yourself? Describe yourself in 6 words. That’s all you have. What was the first term that you used to describe yourself and why?
The sociological imagination paper is a two-part assignment that you will work on over the course of the semester. The first part will ask you to reflect on who you are and how you become you? What outside influences do you understand that have contributed to shape your life? Over the course of the semester, you will be developing your sociological imagination. C. Wright Mills helps us to understand that the sociological imagination is “the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society” (Mills, 1960).
This process will involve you not to think about yourself in a paper about yourself. Complicated right? Not really.