Sociological Imagination Unemployment

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Sociological Imagination: Unemployment
According to Mills (1), people tend to get the wrong perception of the social problems since they focus more on the individual situations than the contribution of the society they live in. As a result, Mills’ article advice on the use of sociological imaginations, an approach of understanding the world around us and linking it to the problems we experience.
Structure
A society consists of all elements in the environment where we live in. The community of unemployed people comprises of qualified, semi-qualified and unqualified individuals who have been laid off from work, are yet to secure jobs in any industry and are currently dependent on the government subsidies for survival.
The essential components include the government policies, education programs and industries contributing to the aspect of unemployment in the society. Moreover, it consists of a group of people experiencing similar social problems, in this case, unemployment.
The connection between the parts is that there is a lack of proper government employment policies and inadequate educational curriculum creates a pool of trained personnel with limited places to work.
Unlike most societies, America has more private companies and institutions than the government-owned. In this case, there is no much the government can do to solve the issues of unemployment in the country. They can only liaise with the private sectors and using academics to encourage a more innovative and entrepreneurial economy.

2. History:
The cause of unemployment dates back as far as the start of industrialization when companies consider options of occasionally reducing their workforce during poor economic crises to maintain constant profit margins and remain afloat in the market.
The unemployed people tend to feel helpless. According to Milles (2), they start feeling as if they were lousy workers and disposable part of the workforce. As a result, they find it hard to secure any jobs as employers limit their employment opportunities with the move to save generate more revenue and cut on expenses.
However, the most significant cause of unemployment in the society was the 1945 recession brought about by the Great Depression. The demobilization of the country’s economy during the World War II cause the country’s GDP to fall significantly.
The Marco trends that cause unemployment problems according to Mills (4) include the crisis in institutional structures. A financial crisis such as economic depressions results in firms laying off workers and closing doors for more or new employees. On the other hand, war leads to the government spending more on military defense systems that investing in creating jobs.
3. Biography
The men and women that prevail include those unable to understand the epoch of their lives and end up being morally insensible and dependent on hope for a better tomorrow. On the other hand, few men and women have identified the cause of the unemployment issue in the country is the social structures and are working towards creating more job opportunities.
People are made to project their problems through education in no small context incorporating all the social issues in the society capable of being the origin of the problem.
Characteristics that encouraged in most people is one that promotes an innovative mindset meant to seek solutions such as creating employment opportunities. On the other hand, the aspect of “it’s all me” is being discouraged as people are being educated on ways to brainstorm the social problems at a macro level.
Dominant institutions such as the social media have changed the way people approach social problems. Social sites provide platforms where people address the issues facing the society and employ sociological imagination when breaking down the problem and seeking solutions.
Conclusion
Sociological imagination refers to a mindset meant to have one project their troubles within a broader society with the understanding that their problems are not solely caused by them but rather the social patterns built on structures, history, and individual bibliographies.

Work Cited
Mills, C. Wright. The sociological imagination. Oxford University Press, (2000): 1-5.