How might the Sociological Imagination (C. Wright Mills) help you to understand this event in a more meaningful way?

1. Select a newspaper article that discusses a current event in your community or somewhere else in the world and briefly address the following questions: a.) How might the Sociological Imagination (C. Wright Mills) help you to understand this event in a more meaningful way? b.) Select ONE major theorist/theory (Karl Marx and Social Conflict Theory OR Emile Durkheim and Structural Functionalism OR Max Weber and Symbolic Interactionism) – and suggest how they would explain this event. We are asking you to apply the theoretical framework of your chosen theorist to your newspaper article; suggest how they would explain/interpret/analyze this event as the basis of your analysis in the short paper.