One of the concepts introduced in Chapter 1 is the sociological imagination. This concept, devised by sociologist C. Wright Mills, is defined as the awareness of the relationship between who we are as individuals and the social forces that shape our lives. One of the major goals of this course is for each student to develop a sociological imagination. Use of the sociological imagination requires the individual to develop the ability to see and understand the patterns that influence individual and group life and to recognize how aspects of our social selves (our social location) influence our identity, experiences, interactions, opportunities and outcomes. One of the ways to understand how people experience their society and why people behave and think the way they do is to look at their social location. Social location, discussed in Chapter 1, includes a person's social and physical traits that are deemed to be important by our society. Some of the traits of our social location in the U.S. include: race, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, social class, nationality, geographic location, religion, disabilities and level of education. The social location of an individual has a profound influence on their experiences, interactions, opportunities and outcomes. For instance, the example of the disproportionate impact of Coronavirus illness and death on member of the African American and Latinx communities has demonstrated the consequences of social class inequalities, racial-ethnic discrimination and healthcare disparities that exist in the U.S.For this assignment, I would like you to reflect on your own social location and the ways in which it influences your experiences and outcomes, as well as examining the impact of social location in conjunction with a current issue. In order to do this, please complete the following (in 3 paragraphs):Generally discuss your social location, reviewing some of the aspects of your social location you see as significant to your experiences and opportunities (please only discuss that which you are comfortable revealing to other members of our class). Pick the one trait of your social location that you think is dominant and discuss how it impacts your experiences, opportunities, outcomes, social interactions and identity. Make sure to provide a few examples from your life that illustrate the impact of this aspect of your social location. Why has society defined this as an important or significant trait? What advantages or disadvantages result from having this trait?Find a news article or podcast focused on a current issue (from a high quality unbiased source) that you can relate to the topic of social location. Provide a brief summary of this article and discuss how the content of the article connects to the discussion of social location. Make sure to include a link to your resource at the end of your post. To get you started, here are a few interesting examples of the impact of social location: This recent article provides an excellent example of what it means to be in the working class in the U.S. in 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/opinion/sunday/deaths-despair-poverty.html?smid=nytcore-ios-shareThis short podcast provides a great example of the ways in which our social class status impacts our cultural traits, experiences and opportunities. It also discusses social mobility and adapting to changes in social status, culturally-speaking: https://www.marketplace.org/shows/this-is-uncomfortable-reema-khrais/i-have-class-anxiety/This podcast discusses how naming conventions differ by race and ethnicity, and what some of the consequences of these differences are for individuals. You can also check out the Census Bureau website to see which are the most popular names today and in the past. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/marijuana-pepsi/ and https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/Please make sure that your completed entry is between 350 - 500 words (use your word count tool in your word processor to do this). You are also required to read through your classmates posts and to comment substantively on 3 or moreof their posts. The responses to your classmates should be 100 - 200 words in length. ATTENTION: After you have completed this assignment and I have reviewed, I will give you the students responses to answer as stated along with this assignment