Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
- Textbook: Chapter 1
- Lesson
- Minimum of 3 outside scholarly sources in addition to the textbook/lesson
Instructions
The textbook readings for Weeks 1 and 2 explore 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:
- Thoroughly explain what the sociological imagination is
- Thoroughly examine how and why the sociological imagination helps understand the personal problem you chose as your topic for this essay
- Compare and contrast the outside research you find on your topic with the textbook’s descriptions of sociological studies of suicide, specifically.
Your paper must contain scholarly support in the form of paraphrases *only* with respective citations from assigned reading (the textbook/lesson) and the outside scholarly sources that you identify on your own. Do not directly quote from sources for this paper, but instead paraphrase in your own words from source material and cite the sources with parenthetical in-text citations and with full APA-style reference entry citations in a reference page at the end of your essay document.
ANSWER
When people can consider obesity like an esthetic concern, the definition and the impact of obesity are more than a simple cosmetic problem. It is a serious social problem and a disease which can affects people’s life in a multidimensional way. It could be social leading to depression, low self-esteem, isolation and even suicidal though, it could be systemic leading to diabetes, high blood pressure, hypercholesterolemia. The aspect that interests me in….. To access full answer, click on the purchase button below.