The shinning star

 Sarah Elgohary Christina Otto         Sociology 201 4/14/13 My Reaction to Article 37 the Uses of Global Poverty: How Economic Inequality Benefits the West by Daina Stukuls Egitis and my answer to Critical Thinking Question # 1.      This article was very interesting to me for many reasons. I have always known that global poverty is increasingly becoming one of the biggest social problems people face around the world today, but I did not know how severe the extent of poverty was in the world. I did not know that 1.4 billion were homeless and living in absolute poverty close to starvation every day. This is because the government only pays the poor below minimum wage providing the poor working class citizens with just enough money for them to barely be able to survive, even though the poor working class citizens work very hard for long hours .The government does not pay the po...

 My Reactions to “The Sociologist’s Imagination” by C. Wright Mills  The article "The Sociological Imagination" by C. Wright Mills to my understanding is about the structure of society. The main idea he was trying to convey was how the individuals of a society affects a society as a whole. The example that Mills states about the unemployment rate in my understanding has held true. It seems that although there were many job cuts in previous years, the quantity was not as great as it is now. In previous years, the layoffs only affected a small amount of people which meant as a whole it didn't really affect society. Now with the increasing number of lost jobs, these combined individuals who are no longer working class have a combined greater effect on society. Although the individual may not directly affect society, society can directly affect an individual. Throughout history, there have been many examples of this statement that Wright has pointed out. There are many incide...