resources. Sociological problems e.g. Unemployment however, may be to consider what it is about the way our society is currently organized that does not provide enough paid work opportunities. Alternatively we might consider why those without work have difficulty maintaining a sense of worth in a society where a person’s identity (their sense of who they are and where
they fit in the world) comes so much from the sort of job an individual performs. Through sociological imagination one is able to think, question and answer questions from a detached view of society and using the rhetoric of sociology to examine aspects of society. It’s through that people can be able to understand why there is unemployment, in that the financial crisis a societal problem due the structural system within.
Sociological problems can be found at all levels of the social world, and reading the morning newspaper is likely to stimulate sociological curiosity on all sorts of sociological problems. Some have serious implications, some not. Sociological problems can occur at the individual, community, societal or global levels.
Our increasingly multicultural world and church demand that we strive to understand social/cultural/ethnic group processes and identity. Such effort will be, by definition, uncomfortable and difficult at times, but will help us to shape wisely human group experience in church and society. It’s through that a practical example can based on Australia, In the Sociological Imagination, Wills (1999) puts it that an individual must look inside himself to help important research problems, and those social sociologists who translate private problems into public/ societal issues. Such translation means that we connect the problems we