SOCS 185N Week 1 - Assignment, Sociological Imagination Essay - Addiction

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Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: Chapter 1 Lesson Minimum of 3 outside scholarly sources Instructions The textbook reading for the week e... xplores social forces that can affect the seemingly private act of suicide. For this assignment, conduct scholarly research on a different private or individualistic act that could be regarded as a broader social problem or social issue, something other than suicide. You may choose one of the following or a topic of your own: Homelessness Veteran homelessness Domestic violence Addiction Obesity In an essay, address the following: Determine how the sociological imagination can help understand that problem. Compare and contrast that research with the textbook's explanation of ways sociologists apply the sociological imagination to understand a problem. Your paper must contain scholarly support in the form of quotes or paraphrases with respective citations from assigned reading (the textbook/lesson) and the outside scholarly sources that you identify on your own. Writing Requirements (APA format) [Show More]

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