The sociological imagination has two main components. The first is the idea of connecting the personal (or biographical) to the historical or societal. Give an example of this.

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Martin, a 32-year-old human relations administrator at a university, believes that all professors over age 50 are incapable of learning the new educational technologies and are content to keep presenting their same "tired, boring" lectures. he often expresses these views to other administrators and does not encourage any of the "older" faculty members to attend professional development meetings related to new teaching approaches nor does he suggest that the university send them to any of the technology conferences. martin is exhibiting

Sarah has been collecting intensive interviews with women who organize in grassroots movements for wages for housework. now she is looking over the interviews and trying to find common themes within them. what part of the research process is she in?