What Is the Sociological Imagination

question 14

Multiple Choice

What is the sociological imagination?

• A) a characteristic of society that ensures people remain ignorant of the connections between their lives and social change
• B) a particular way of understanding the criminal mind such as that of a serial killer
• C) the ability to understand the connections between biography and history or the self and the world
• D) the sociological approach that assumes individual decisions and interactions are independent of larger social institutions

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Definitions:

Personality

A combination of emotional, attitudinal, and behavioral response patterns of an individual that are characteristic over long periods.

Psychodynamic

A psychological perspective that analyzes how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts.

Theoretical Systems

Frameworks or models that are developed to explain various phenomena or behaviors through abstract concepts and interactions.

Personality

A set of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral patterns that are relatively stable over time and across situations, and that distinguish one individual from another.