In The Sociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills described sociology as the intersection of biography and history and defined the “sociological imagination” as the ability to see the connections between individual experiences (biography) and the larger socio-historical context of those experiences (history).

Write an essay in which you need to exercise your sociological imagination by placing your own family experience in its larger sociological context. Describe what concepts from the course thus far do you see in your own family? How have these concepts influenced your family’s priorities, the organization of family life, and the division of family roles?