Analyze a past or current situation in your life by using the sociological imagination, which means demonstrating that you understand how societal factors

Analyze a past or current situation in your life by using the sociological imagination, which means demonstrating that you understand how societal factors have played a role in the situation you choose to write about.  For this essay, you’ll be writing about either a goal you’ve reached, a major decision you’ve made, a dilemma you’ve faced, or any other type of situation you’ve been in or are currently in.  Do NOT include psychological or personal factors that played a role unless you put those in the introductory or concluding paragraph or you include them in a body paragraph that has FIRST established at least one sociological influence. Also, make sure you choose a situation that was influenced by macro, middle AND micro level sociological factors since all three are required in the essay.  Remember that under Instructor’s Notesfor Chapter 1 in Unit 1 there is a document that explains these categories in more detail than the explanation below:

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MACROlevel influences can be (a) demographic groups you identify with (the focus of Durkheim’s research) e.g. your age group, your race or ethnicity, your social class, your educational level, your political party, or your religion if any of these helped “create” the situation; (b) social institutions (family, religion, education, government, the mass media, the economy, the health care system, the military, etc.) if any of these helped create the situation; and/or (c) national societal events and social movements that may have influenced the situation (for example, 9-11, the environmental movement, the war against terror, the war against poverty, the gay rights movement, the Tea Party movement, etc.).

           MIDDLE LEVELgroups or individuals are part of the community to which you belong (or belonged at the time) or which have affected you without being a member (e.g. a school or a church, a business, an organization, or the county commissioners, etc.).

           MICRO LEVELgroups are very informal primary social groups of two or more members, such as your family members or

close friends.  One person that you had/have any relationship to can be included since that person IS part of a group (of