When it comes to sociology the main purpose is to basically look at the bigger pictures and not exactly as an individual but rather as a society and as groups . It interests me that although I always thought looking at individuals is common so for example in class when we discussed about seeing a homeless man on the street as me thinking as I usually do my thoughts do turn to more of the individual . For example I would say he is homeless because maybe he doesn’t have a job but after realizing rather than looking at him I need to zoom out and actually see why doesn’t he have a job? could it be when unemployment was on the rise and he hasn’t been able to get back onto his feet since. I see that sociologist are not just also grouping society as a whole but rather in groups just as how you would group people by social class they would go deeper than just a social class but then can go to ethnicity and then compare others to get more information out of research and society as a whole. I used to see to think that sociologist where just always looking at statistics but then I realize that they are just like the rest of society but rather more aware of what and why stuff is happening around us . There is so many branches that you can go on to from sociology for example sociologist are not just one specific job but rather they are broken into different parts so they can focus on a certain group in society so some might be more interested into more the biography of people but then it blends with the history which is the group of people so being able to blend those together is what makes society and sociologist are able to break it down to what some people have in common to gain more insight on society . This is of high importance because in life we are never alone people are everywhere and we should be aware of that and rather than just being stuck in a box we should get out and see the bigger picture and I believe sociology and the study is the understanding the bigger picture to actually further understand peoples troubles and also social issues such as and economic crisis and with personal troubles we can gain more knowledge on why things occur and how and most importantly how to prevent some situations.

While reading this chapter I was first confused by the chapter being about jeans ad I questioned how it would inter relate with sociology although I knew this book was to give example that are common to society and then hep teach how it is an example of what sociology might study. On page two it describes how jeans are a fashion staple that somehow always stays in trend just being able to change the style for example the flare of a jean or the rise that is going to be worn. When they gave the word of sociological imagination and the examples that they corresponded with which is saying I love shopping because I love new stuff , it made me realize that we shop not for necessity but for wants. On page six it spoke more on how if a Jena does not fit right after a few washes it can then become seen by us as society as “old ” and that we need a new pair of jeans but in reality it is the society that surrounds us that feeds that into our mental that a pair of jeans are old after a couple washes . The example of jeans reminded me of iPhones because majority of the time a new iPhone comes out it is not that we need the newest phone that comes out but we start telling ourselves that we need a new phone whether it is because our phones going slow or the newest latest features of the newest iPhone release that makes us feel as if it is a necessity. On page nine where it starts to touch on the basis of how the average American has a $15,600 balance on their credit card because the people feel pressured to make purchases that they simply can not afford. This showed me the main point of this chapter how the example of jeans was to show that buying goods is the type of society we live in because although we have the tools to make jeans ourselves we simply won’t but rather go and buy them and this highlights the example of how we live in a consumer culture . That can even be compared with fast food we simply do not make the foods anymore because how convenient it is to just go through a drive thru and get our food handed to us . Sociologist are able to see these patterns and make sense of them so they do not just look at jeans as jeans but rather deeper as going into how it is made and the consumer demand it does have , the effects of the demand and why exactly we do demand it.

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