Freaks and Geeks

In class this week we watched an episode of a show called "Freaks and Geeks" which was about this teenage girl named Lindsay, who has always been a straight A student, who starts hanging out with the burnout kids, or the "Freaks". She also has a younger brother who is considered the "Geek" he hangs out with his two other friends, always getting made fun of and pushed around. I thought that the burnout group was dysfunctional because they really aren't doing anything to help each other out, and they're only bringing each other down. They ditch class and do drugs. That can't be a functional group.

Sociological Imagination

Last week in class we learned about sociological imagination, which is to explain sociology and its relevance in daily life. Mills defined it as "The vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society."It can help to see the bigger details and pay attention to things you normally wouldn't, and see the motives behind peoples actions. It requires you to see things from another point of view. The things around people shape what they do to create an outcome. Sociological imagination seems so simple and obvious, but none of us take the time to actually think about it, so when we do, certain things stand out, and we see things we maybe didn't see before.