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WRITE AT LEAST 7 SENTENCES: Summarize how Mills defines "personal troubles' and "public issues". Next, using your sociological imagination, explain how a minor personal trouble from your own life could actually be part of a public issue. You should show you understand how Mills defines "troubles" and "Issues"! Mention at least one relevant term from an earlier module that helps clarify the wider social or public issue - for example some aspect of your social position, or a wider historical force. You can click here to open a useful extract from the Mills reading on this topic, showing you examples of how you could do this - and you can do this type of analysis with a wide variety of topics: student debt, problems with the police, being treated unfairly, not having friends, having to live with parents after college, etc. This question is meant to help you review course materials fòr your final essay and for your final exam. Answer using 4-5 sentences (more is OK). This special question counts for 3/4 of this mini-quiz points (i.e. it is the equivalent of 3 regular mini-quiz multiple choice questions). It may take several days for us to grade your answers. We will grade most answers on a pass fail basis, but reserve the right to assign partial credit as needed. ht... https://dzi.msu.edu/content... https://d21.msu.edu/content... Troubles occur within the character of the individual and within the range of his immediate relations with others; they have to do with his self and with those limited areas of social life of which he is directly and personally aware. Accordingly, the statement and the resolution of troubles properly lie within the individual as a biographical entity and within the scope of his immediate milieu-the social set- ting that is directly open to his personal experience and to some extent his willful activity. A trouble is a private matter: values cher- ished by an individual are felt by him to be threatened. Issues have to do with matters that transcend these local environments of the individual and the range of his inner life. They have to do with the organization of many such milieux into the institutions of an historical society as a whole, with the ways in which various milieux overlap and interpenetrate to form the larger structure of social and historical life. An issue is a public matter: some value cher- ished by publics is felt to be threatened. Often there is a debate about what that value really is and about what it is that really threatens it. This debate is often without focus if only because it is the very nature of an issue, unlike even widespread trouble, that it cannot very well be defined in terms of the immediate and everyday environments of ordinary men. An issue, in fact, often involves a crisis in institutional arrangements, and often too it involves what Marxists call 'contradic- tions' or 'antagonisms.' In these terms, consider unemployment. When, in a city of 100,000, only one man is unemployed, that is his personal trouble, and for its relief we properly look to the character of the man, his skills, and his immediate opportunities. But when in a nation of 50 million employees, 15 million men are unemployed, that is an issue, and we may not hope to find its solution within the range of oppor- tunities open to any one individual. The very structure of opportuni- ties has collapsed. Both the correct statement of the problem and the range of possible solutions require us to consider the economic and political institutions of the society, and not merely the personal situ- ation and character of a scatter of individuals. Consider war. The personal problem of war, when it occurs, may be how to survive it or how to die in it with honor; how to make money out of it; how to climb into the higher safety of the military apparatus; or how to contribute to the war's termination. In short, according to one's values, to find a set of milieux and within it to survive the war or make one's death in it meaningful. But the structural issues of war have to do with its causes; with what types of men it throws up into command; with its effects upon economic and politi- cal, family and religious institutions, with the unorganized irrespon-sibility of a world of nation-states. Consider marriage. Inside a marriage a man and a woman may experience personal troubles, but when the divorce rate during the first four years of marriage is 250 out of every 1,000 attempts, this is an indication of a structural issue having to do with the institutions of marriage and the family and other institutions that bear upon them.
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Personal Trouble
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