Sociological Imagination and Domestic Violence

Running head: SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
Sociological imagination and domestic violence
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Running head: SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
Introduction
Social problems generally refers to the presence of certain practices that are
detrimental to the overall growth of the country. Social problems is generally divided in to
categories namely the individual one and the collective one. C.Wright mills in his
Sociological Imagination (1956), wrote about the relationship between the agency and the
structure (Mills 2000). This book was initially meant for commenting on the Parsonian logic,
which relied on building up building grand theory for understanding social problems. The
social problem that will be discussed here is related to the abuse of female bodies in the
domestic sphere (Boxall et al 2015). Domestic violence in Australia is a burgeoning problem
and it will be analysed using the current government records and will be remised on the
theoretical foundation of mills.
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Building grand theories and analysing the patterns of social reality without any
knowledge on the empirical reality can be very misleading. Thus, it is important to
understand how the individual biography is related to the history of a particular society. This
kind of understanding is very relevant because it addressed the relationship between the
individual, the way they experience reality within the context of the wider framework of
history. In this way mills was also proponent of abstract empiricism. The concept of abstract
empiricism was a term used by Mills that world be used to address the social problem using
both the quantitative research technologies and theoretical understanding of social reality.
Problems like unemployment or death caused by starvation is not just individual
troubles but they also mount to pubic issue like joblessness or food scarcity at a macro level
(Mills 2000). Individual gets trapped in their day-to-day troubles and fails to understand what
is happening in the larger context. Domestic violence or domestic abuse is one of the
mushrooming problem in Australia this kind of act not only hampers the emotional built of