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What Makes a Private Trouble a Public Social Issue?
Apply C. Wright Mills' sociological imagination to distinguish personal troubles from widespread structural social issues.
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Defining and Investigating Contemporary Social Issues
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Apply sociological research methodologies to systematically define, operationalize, and analyze complex social issues in contemporary communities.
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