Sociological Imagination

According to Sociologist, C. Wright Mills, people often believe that their private lives can only be explained in terms for their personal successes and failures.  They fail to see the links between their own individual lives and the society around them.  The process of interpreting your individual life in the context of your community or the society in which you live is called "Sociological Imagination.  Use your Sociological Imagination to discuss the unbreakable connection between individual experiences and the social impact of one of the following issues:

1.  Being unemployed and the impact of unemployment as a broad issue.
2.  Living in poverty and the broader issue of proverty in society.