Question

By adopting a sociological imagination, you can look beyond commonly held beliefs to the hidden meanings behind human actions.

Answer 1

True,

Social Imagination gives us insight about how the social environment plays a crucial role in shaping us and our thoughts and in a progressive/degenerative way shape our society.  

For instance – a girl who is of dark complexion lives in inferiority complex as she feels she don’t looks pretty. From a distant view, we may feel that it’s the personal problem of that girl, but when we look from a social imagination point of view, we may realize that it is the obsession of the society with fair colour that creates such problems.  

Answer 2

Answer:

True

Explanation:

Sociological imagination broadens our perspective about our own thoughts and the rituals and beliefs prevailing within a society. It creates a platform where one is free to think and access things or beliefs independently without any social pressure or interference. An intellectual individual uses, tries and test logic behind everything with social backing. He/she do not belief any thing in the same way as a society do.

All great sociologist have predicted certain flaws in the existing social structure only when they started thinking sociologically.

Hence the given statement is true.